Oral history interview with Alfonso Ossorio

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956

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Jackson Pollock was born in 1912, in Cody, Wyoming, the youngest of five sons. His family moved several times during his childhood, finally settling in Los Angeles. In 1930 he joined his older brother, Charles, in New York City, and studied with Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York. Pollock worked during the 1930s for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. During 1936 he worked in artist David Alfaro Siqueiros's Experimental Workshop. In...

Ossorio, Alfonso, 1916-1990

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Painter, sculptor; New York, N.Y. Died 1990. From the description of Alfonso Ossorio papers, 1949-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122647958 Alfonso Ossorio (1916-1990) was an American artist who was born in the Philippines, attended boarding schools in England, and came to the United States to study at the Portsmouth Priory School, Rhode Island, and then at Harvard University. Ossorio is best known as for his illustrations and abstract sculpture. From the de...

Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985

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French artist. From the description of Letters, 1955-1956, to Rene Drouin. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122444228 French painter, litographer, sculptor, architect and author. From the description of Correspondence and papers, 1944-1984. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78575673 French painter. From the description of Letters to "Editions Alecto." (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122583669 From the description of Letter...

Signa Gallery

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Commercial art gallery, founded 1957. Exhibited the work of contemporary East Hampton, N.Y. artists. From the description of Signa Gallery records, 1957-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502642 ...

Selvig, Forrest

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