Molly Saltman "Art and Artists" interviews

Pons, Lily, 1898-1976

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Alice Joséphine Pons (April 12, 1898–February 13, 1976), known professionally as Lily Pons, was a French-American operatic soprano and actress who had an active career from the late 1920s through the early 1970s. As an opera singer, she specialized in the coloratura soprano repertoire and was particularly associated with the title roles in Lakmé and Lucia di Lammermoor. In addition to appearing as a guest artist with many opera houses internationally, Pons enjoyed a long association with the Met...

Langsner, Jules, 1911-1967

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Jules Langsner was born Julius Harold Langsner in New York, New York on May 5, 1911. His family later relocated to Ontario, California around 1922 to start a small farm. The farm soon transformed into the Paradise Health Resort and became a place frequented by intellectuals and their families. In Ontario, he was introduced to the Pollock family, and became friends with three of their sons: Jackson, Frank, and Sanford. Langsner attended Belmont High School in Los Angeles, Calif., while many of hi...

Falkenstein, Claire, 1908-1997

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b. Coos Bay, Ore., 1908; d. Venice, Calif., Oct. 23, 1997. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122459083 Falkenstein is known primarily as a glass sculptor. Resident of Venice, California. From the description of Allegory #4 [&] Allegory #5 [graphic] / Claire Falkenstein. 1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220205549 Sculptor; Venice, Calif. From the...

Natzler, Otto

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Otto Natzler (1908-2007) was a ceramicist in Los Angeles, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Otto Natzler, 1980 July 7-14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646395893 Ceramist (Los Angeles, Calif.) Born in 1908. Died in 2007. From the description of Otto Natzler interviews, 1980 July 7-1980 July 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220179939 ...

Carpenter, Edmund J. (Edmund James), 1845-1924

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Tyler, Kenneth E. 1931-

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Saltman, Molly, 1915-

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Radio talk show host; Los Angeles, Calif. From the description of Molly Saltman "Art and Artists" interviews, 1965-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82548285 ...

Seidenbaum, Art

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Young, Colin

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Wurdemann, Helen.

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Wagner, Gordon, 1915-1987

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Gordon Parsons Wagner was born on Apr. 13, 1915 in Redondo Beach, CA; attended UCLA (1935, 1939, 1941); and Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1937-41; taught painting, drawing, and sculpture at Barnsdall Art Center (1960-67), Pitzer College (1970-71), and other institutions; became a sculptor and painter, winning 75 awards; his work is represented in some 500 collections and museums, including the Denver Art Museum, Sodertelje Art Museum (Sweden), and the Ahmanson Collection, LA; he died on ...

Natzler, Gertrud

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Katz, Fred

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Schiff, Atzie.

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Nyiri, Joseph, 1937-

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Yates, Peter, 1909-1976

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American music critic, author, teacher, and poet, who was much engaged in the study and promotion of 20th century American avant-garde music. Yates was principal organizer of "Evenings on the Roof," a series of chamber concerts presented in Los Angeles, and he served as chair of the music department at Buffalo State College. Married to pianist Frances Mullen in 1933, Yates also authored two important books AN AMATEUR AT THE KEYBOARD (1965) and TWENTIETH CENTURY MUSIC (1967). He died in 1976. ...

Wein, Albert W. (Albert Walter), 1915-1991

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Raboff, Ernest Lloyd

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Longstreet, Stephen, 1907-2002

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Stephen Longstreet was an artist, novelist, and screenwriter who lived and worked primarily in New York and Los Angeles. From the description of Stephen Longstreet papers, 1925-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702182422 American author. From the description of Sketch of William Faulkner [manuscript] 1944. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647944597 American novelist. From the description of Letter to Matthew J. Bruccoli [manus...

Price, Vincent, 1911-1993

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Price, Vincent, 1911-1993, Actor, art collector, patron of Los Angeles, Calif.; d. October 25, 1993. From the description of Oral history interview with Vincent Price, 1992 Aug. 6-14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646400285 Actor, art collector, patron; Los Angeles, Calif.; d. October 25, 1993. From the description of Oral history interview with Vincent Price, 1992 August 6-14 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77866325 Vincent Price was ...

Sperry, Vicci

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Sellery, Austin.

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Trimborn, Harry.

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Chochem, Fanya

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Horowitz, Benjamin, 1912-

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Levine, Jack, 1915-2010

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Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Jack Levine interview, 1968 Sept. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220187653 Artist. From the description of Reminiscences of Jack Levine : oral history, 1956. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309738074 Painter; Boston, Mass. and New York, N.Y. Exponent of Social Realism during the 1930s. He resided in Boston until 1942. Married to painter Ruth Gik...

Partch, Harry, 1901-1974

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Biography Harry Partch was born in Oakland, CA on June 24, 1901; both his parents had been Presbyterian missionaries in China who endured the Boxer Rebellion. By the age of 20, he had moved through parts of the Midwest and East Coast, then back through Northern and Southern California before settling in San Diego in 1964. He began his early musical training playing clarinet, harmonium, viola, piano, and guitar and composing music using a temp...

Cordner, Lynn

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Finkelstein, Max, 1915-

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Ekros.

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Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973

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American artist; co-founder of the Synchromism movement. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [postmarked Santa Monica], to Morgan Russell, 1929 Aug. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606816 Painter; Los Angeles, California. From the description of Oral history interview with Stanton Macdonald-Wright, 1967 May 26 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81393723 "Noted American painter Stanton Macdonald-Wright ... was hired to p...

Brigante, Nicholas P., 1895-1989

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Painter; Los Angeles, Calif. From the description of Nicholas Brigante interview, 1964 May 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220192159 From the description of Oral history interview with Nicholas Brigante, 1964 May 25 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312025250 Nicholas P. Brigante (1895-1989), artist, born in Padua, Italy, trained and based in Los Angeles, California. From the description of Nicholas P. Brigante correspondence and paper...

White, Charles, 1918-1979

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Charles Wilbert White (1918-1979) was a painter and educator from Los Angeles, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Charles Wilbert White, 1965 Mar. 9 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80914917 African American painter and educator; Los Angeles, Calif. From the description of Charles Wilbert White papers, [ca. 1930]-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79868172 ...

Lytton, Bart, 1912-1969

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Biberman, Edward, 1904-1986

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Painter, printmaker, mural painter; Los Angeles, Calif.; b. 1904; d. 1986. From the description of Edward Biberman interview, 1964 Apr. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220191697 From the description of Oral history interview with Edward Biberman, 1964 Apr. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007069 B. 1904. From the description of Edward Biberman artist file. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 228433001 Edward Biberman (1...

Secunda, Arthur.

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Painter, printmaker; Scottsdale, Arizona. From the description of Arthur Secunda papers, ca. 1960s-1990s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79177358 ...

Hopper, Dennis, 1936-2010

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Feitelson, Lorser, 1898-1978

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Painters; Los Angeles, Calif. Husband and wife. Feitelson, who also was a graphic artist and teacher, and director of the WPA in California, died in 1978. Lundeberg died in 1999. From the description of Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg papers, circa 1890s-2002 (bulk 1919-1999). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 297147697 Lorser Feitelson, b. 1898; d. 1978, Painter and art administrator, Federal Art Project of Los Angeles, Calif. From the description of Oral hist...

Edmondson, Leonard, 1916-2002

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Marko, Robert

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Gladstone, Gerald, 1925-

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Young, Joseph, 1919-2007

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Joseph Louis Young (1919-2007) was an American artist and architect. Born in Pittsburgh, he studied art, literature and journalism at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, earning his D. Litt. in 1960. He served in the Army Air Force, where he wrote articles and drew cartoons; after ending his military service he took art classes at several schools including Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He married pianist Millicent Goldstein, with whom ...

Carlson, Walter Clarence, 1934-

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Karlson, Andre.

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Kuntz, Roger Edward, 1926-1975

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Gill, James, 1934-

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Temianka, Henri

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Temianka was born on Nov. 19, 1906, in Greenock, Scotland; studied violin with Blitz in Rotterdam (1915-23), Willi Hess at the Berlin Hochschule (1923-24), Jules Boucherit in Paris (1924-26), and with Flesch and Rodzinski at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, PA, from which he graduated in 1930; toured the world as a violin virtuoso during the 1930s, gaining international recognition by winning the first Wieniawski Violin Competition in Warsaw in 1935; was concertmaster of the Scottish Orches...

Stuart, Gloria

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Hopkins, Henry, 1928-2009

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Director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. From the description of Henry Tyler Hopkins interviews, 1980 Oct. 24-1980 Dec. 17 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220240020 From the description of Oral history interview with Henry Tyler Hopkins, 1980 Oct. 24-1980 Dec. 17 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 233007065 Henry Hopkins, born 1928, studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, but is best known as a curator, teacher, and mu...

Lipton, Lawrence, 1898-1975

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Lipton was born in October 1898 in Łódź, Poland and came to the US in 1903; he tried several careers during his life including graphic artist, journalist, and publicity director; married three times, he co-authored several mystery fiction books with his second wife, Georgiana Randolph, under the pseudonym, Craig Rice; Lipton is known for his participation in the Beat experience in Venice, CA; published books include: Brother, the laugh is bitter (1942), In secret battle (1944), Rainbow at midn...

Altman, Ralph C.

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Brugger, Katherine.

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Tuchman, Maurice, 1936-

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Maurice Tuchman is curator of 20th Century art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. From the description of Maurice Tuchman interviews, 1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84470952 Curator; Los Angeles, Calif. Born 1936. Tuchman, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and his fellow curator, Maria de Herrera, arranged the closed discussion in preparation for an exhibition on public art and the contemporar...

Ziegengeist, Jerry.

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Kaplan, Abbot.

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Hamilton, Richard, 1922-2011

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James, Kelly, 1949-

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Jain, Mahendra K.

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Whitaker, Frederic

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Frederic Whitaker (1891-1980) was an award-winning American artist and writer on painting and art. Whitaker began his artistic career as a metalsmith, working for Gorham Manufacturing Company and Tiffany & Co. and later founding two companies of his own. However, it was as a watercolorist that he became most famous and when he retired in 1949 he devoted himself full-time to painting. He was also active in the promotion of the arts, particularly painting; he was a member of the N...

Maure, Paul.

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Whitaker, Eileen Monaghan, 1911-

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Hatfield, Dalzell, Mrs.

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Jain, Ravi, 1935-

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Wayne, June 1918-....

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June Wayne (1918-2011) was a painter and printmaker in Los Angeles, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with June Wayne, 1970 Aug. 4-6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 767864547 From the description of Oral history interview with June Wayne, 1970 Aug. 4-Aug. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122397068 Visual artist June Claire Wayne was born on March 7, 1918 in Chicago, Illinois, where she was raised by her divorced mother, Dorothy Alice Kline. At a...

Donahue, Kenneth

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Kenneth Donahue (1915-1985) was a museum director and art historian of Los Angeles, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Kenneth Donahue, 1981 Mar. 18-Apr. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779476953 Donahue helped establish a History of Art Department at the University of Louisville, 1936-38; was lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), 1936-38 and at the Frick Museum (New York City) 1959-1953; curator at the Ringling Museum (Sarasota, Fl...

Landau, Felix, 1924-2003

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