Oral history interview with Michael and Magdalena Suarez Frimkess

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Oral history interview with Michael and Magdalena Suarez Frimkess

2001 March 8-April 17

An interview of Michael Frimkess and his wife, Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, conducted 2001 March 3-April 17, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in the Frimkesses' studio/home, Venice, California.

Sound recording: 6 sound cassettes (6 hr.) : analog.Transcript: 83 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7917244

Archives of American Art

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