Oral history interview with Leo Castelli

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Oral history interview with Leo Castelli

1969 July

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An interview of Leo Castelli conducted 1969 July, by Barbara Rose, for the Archives of American Art. Castelli speaks of his first gallery with Rene Drouin, 1939; the Surrealists; the post-World War II art scene in New York City; the influence of Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline, and Jackson Pollock; The Club; the Ninth Street Show, 1951; Clement Greenberg and French and Co.; and art movements. He recalls Peggy Guggenheim, Sidney Janis, and Julien Levy.

Sound recording: 1 sound tape reel ; 5 in.Transcript: 11 p.

Archives of American Art

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SNAC Resource ID: 8224174

Archives of American Art

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Club (New York, N.Y.)

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Levy, Julien

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Educator, writer, art dealer, collector; New York, N.Y. and Conn. Born 1906. Died 1981. From the description of Julien Levy interview, 1975 May 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220182594 Julien Levy (1906-1981) was an educator, writer, art dealer, and collector from New York, N.Y. and Conn. From the description of Oral history interview with Julien Levy, 1975 May 30 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495595094 Author, teache...

Drouin, Rene.

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Janis, Sidney, 1896-1989

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Art dealer; New York, N.Y. Operated the Sidney Janis Gallery. Died 1989. From the description of Sidney Janis interview, 1972 Mar. 21-1972 Sept. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220186713 b. 1896; d. 1989. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 86133413 Sidney Janis (1896-1989) is an art dealer from New York, N.Y. Operated the Sidney Janis Gal...

Castelli, Leo

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Leo Castelli (1907-1999) was an art dealer in New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Leo Castelli, 1969 July [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79081963 b. September 4, 1907; d. August 21, 1999. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122377727 Art collector and dealer; interviewee b. 1907. From the description of Reminiscences of Leo C...

Rose, Barbara

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Art historian; New York, N.Y.; b. 1937. From the description of Barbara Rose papers, 1966-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220244439 Barbara Rose (1937- ) is an art historian in New York, N.Y. From the description of Barbara Rose papers, 1962-circa 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 744428650 ...

Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-

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Leo Castelli Gallery

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Leo Castelli Gallery (est. 1957) art gallery, New York, N.Y. Leo Castelli (1907-1999), founder of Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, N.Y. He established the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1957, recognizing that important cultural changes were occuring in America and that a new form of art would derive from Abstract Expressionism which was in its heyday. The first two artists he signed up were Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, both transitional figures in the move f...