Museum of Contemporary Art interviews

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Museum of Contemporary Art interviews

1979-1986

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The Museum of Contemporary Art Interviews measure 8 linear feet and contain video interviews with 35 artists, curators, and an art collector, conducted by the staff of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago between 1979 and 1986, on 107 U-Matic videocassettes. The first set of interviews are with contemporary artists who had solo exhibitions at the museum between 1979 and 1985, including Chuck Close, Roger Brown, Eric Fischl, Peter and Ritzi Jacobi, Steve Keister, Sol Le Witt, and collector Dennis Adrian, whose Chicago art collection was exhibited in 1982. The remainder of the series contains four sets of interviews and other footage relating to exhibitions and programming, including the 1979 exhibition <title render="italic">Wall Painting - Ryman, Hafif, Pozzi, Jackson, Yasuda</title>; the 1981 exhibition <title render="italic">Kick out the jams: Detroit’s Cass Corridor 1963-1977</title>; and the 1983 exhibition and educational program <title render="italic">Eleven Chicago Artists</title>, created with Chicago’s N.A.M.E. gallery, which traveled to area high schools featuring short video documentaries about each artist that were created from the footage on the tapes in this collection. The last set includes interviews with architects Dirk Lohan and George Danforth and historian Franz Schulze, created for the 1986 program “Mies van der Rohe Remembered,” celebrating the centennial of the architect’s birth.

107 video cassettes (U-matic) ; 3/4 inch.

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Jacobi, Peter, 1935-....

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Yasuda, Robert, 1940-

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Hull, Richard, 1953-

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Ryman, Robert, 1930-....

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Robert Ryman, b. 1930, Painter of New York N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Ryman, 1972 Oct. 13-1972 Nov. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646396889 Painter (New York N.Y.). From the description of Robert Ryman interviews, 1972 Oct. 13-1972 Nov. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220180191 Robert Ryman (1930- ) is a painter from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Robert Ryman, 197...

Jackson, Richard, 1931-

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Southern Baptist clergyman from Arizona. Moderate canidate for president of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1987 and 1988. From the description of Press conference [sound recording] 1989 (Hudson Valley Community College). WorldCat record id: 38569335 ...

Gremp, David.

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Keister, Steve, 1949-

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Paschke, Ed

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Painter, illustrator; Chicago, Ill. Born 1939. Died 2004. From the description of Ed Paschke interview, 1978 July 21-Nov. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220189187 Ed Paschke, b. 1939; d. 2004, Painter, illustrator of Chicago, Ill. From the description of Oral history interview with Ed Paschke, 1978 July 21-Nov. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397461 ...

McCullough, Geraldine.

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Feigenson, Jackie.

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Luchs, Michael, 1938-

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Hafif, Marcia, 1929-....

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Wirsum, Karl, 1939-

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LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007

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Sol LeWitt (1928 – 2007) Sol LeWitt was born on September 9th, 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut to Eastern European immigrants. His father, a doctor and inventor, died when he was 6. Soon after, he moved with his mother, a nurse, to live with an aunt in New Britain, Connecticut. His mother took him to art classes at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford and he would draw on wrapping paper from his aunt’s grocery store. LeWitt received a BFA from Syracuse University in 1949 (where he made his f...

Ramirez, Dan (Daniel), 1941-

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Piet, John Frances, 1946-

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Fischl, Eric, 1948-....

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Eric Fischl (1948- ) and April Gornik (1953- ) are painters. Fischl and Gornik met at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, married, and now live and work in New York. From the description of Oral history interview with Eric Fischl and April Gornik, 2008 June 6 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 657043516 Eric Fischl (1948- ) is a realist painter. Fischl was educated at California Institute of the Arts. Fischl...

Kramer, Linda Konheim

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Itatani, Michiko

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Museum of contemporary art Chicago, Ill.

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Jacobi, Ritzi, 1941-....

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Ritzi Jacobi (1941- ) is a fiber artist in Dusseldorf, Germany. Jane Milosch (1964- ) is a curator in Washington, D.C. From the description of Oral history interview with Ritzi Jacobi, 2010 July 1-3 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 710020610 ...

Adrian, Dennis, 1937-....

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Brown, Roger 1941-

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Phelan, Ellen, 1943-

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Ellen Phelan (1943- ) is a painter in New York, N.Y. Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is former executive director of iCI in New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Ellen Phelan, 2008 Nov. 15-2009 Jan. 2 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 317592531 ...

Wilson, Anne Gawthrop, 1940-

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Hillberry, Suzanne, 1944-

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Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969

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German born architect. From the description of Manuscript fragment (n.d.) and letter, 1962 Nov.30. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82217577 Architect. From the description of Reminiscences of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122631918 Architect. Born in Aachen, Germany (1886). From the description of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe collection, 1929-1969....

Close, Chuck, 1940-....

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Chuck Close (1940- ) is a painter from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Chuck Close, 1987 May 14-Sept. 30 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77837600 Artist. From the description of Reminiscences of Chuck Close : oral history, [197-?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122619911 ...

Britton, Sylvester, 1926-

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Egner, John 1940-

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John Egner (1940- ) is a painter from New York, N.Y. and Detroit, Mich. From the description of Oral history interview with John Egner, 1979 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477488 Painter. From the description of John Egner interview, 1979, June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185716 John Egner, 1940- , painter. From the description of Oral history interview with John Egner, 1979 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397275...

Pozzi, Lucio, 1935-

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Wharton, Margaret, 1945-

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Spector, Buzz

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In January 2007, Cornell Art Professor Buzz Spector created a sculpture of a giant letter "C" composed entirely of more than 800 books on arts and humanities subjects written by Cornellians and loaned by authors from across the Cornell community. Initially exhibited in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning's New York City space at 50 W. 17th St. from January 12-19, 2007, it was reinstalled for a monthlong exhibition in Kroch Library's Hirshland Gallery in April. Books spanned the years f...