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1. Interview of Joseph Rykwert

Topic:
Art
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series Art History - Oral Documentation Project are part of a cooperative venture between the Oral History Program and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, documents a generation of scholars who developed and elaborated paradigms of art history establi...
Biographical Note:
University of Pennsylvania professor of architecture with a focus on history and theory.

2. Interview of Thomas H. Garver

Topic:
Art
Length:
10 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Director of the Newport Harbor Art Museum.

3. Interview of Henry T. Hopkins

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Museum Staff
Art
UCLA Faculty
Length:
20 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
UCLA professor of art. Director of the UCLA Wight Art Gallery and the Hammer Museum.

4. Interview of Alonzo Davis

Topic:
African American History
Art
Length:
11.25 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series African American Artists of Los Angeles document significant African American Artists and others in the Los Angeles metropolitan area who have worked to expand exhibition opportunities and public support for African American visual culture. The series was made possibl...
Biographical Note:
African American artist. Co-founder of the Brockman Gallery in Los Angeles.

5. Interview of Guillermo Bermudez

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
Community History
Music
UCLA History: Events and Projects
Literature
Art
Theater
Length:
3.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series Arts in Corrections: Interviews with Participants in California Department of Corrections' Institutional Arts Program document the stories of formerly incarcerated artists, professional artists, and administrators who participated in the Arts-in-Corrections program. A...
Biographical Note:
Painter and actor, member of the Advisory Board of the Poetic Justice Project and part of the Arts-in-Corrections program during incarceration.

6. Interview of Lee Mullican

Topic:
Art
Length:
6 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...

7. Interview of Annita Delano

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
Art
UCLA Faculty
Length:
17 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
UCLA professor of art.

8. Interview of John Palmer Leeper

Topic:
Art
Length:
2 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series focuses on the history of the Pasadena Museum of Art and its role as a pathbreaking venue for contemporary art in Southern California in the 1960s.
Biographical Note:
Assistant to the director of the Pasadena Art Museum and director of the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum.

9. Interview of Judy Chicago

Topic:
Art
Length:
1.8 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Artist and co-founder of the Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts.

10. Interview of Peter Plagens

Topic:
Art
Length:
12 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Painter. Art critic for Newsweek and contributor to Artforum, Art in America, and other publications.

11. Interview of Walter Hopps

Topic:
Art
Length:
4 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series focuses on the history of the Pasadena Museum of Art and its role as a pathbreaking venue for contemporary art in Southern California in the 1960s.
Biographical Note:
Curator and director of the Pasadena Art Museum. Co-founder of the Ferus Gallery. Director of the Washington Gallery of Modern Art and the Menil Foundation.

12. Interview of Robert Irwin (1977)

Topic:
Art
Length:
20.25 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Light-and-space artist and creator of site-specific works.

14. Interview of Leonard Edmondson

Topic:
Art
Length:
5.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...
Biographical Note:
Artist and educator at Pasadena City College, Otis College of Art and Design, and California State University, Los Angeles.

15. Interview of Helen Lundeberg

Topic:
Art
Length:
2.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...
Biographical Note:
Artist.

16. Interview of Michelle Arens

Topic:
Art
Length:
2 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM), founded in Los Angeles by Edith and Frank Wyle, grew out of The Egg and The Eye, a commercial art gallery/restaurant devoted to international contemporary craft and folk art—and (in the restaurant) omelettes. The gallery opened November 1, 1965 at 5814 Wilsh...
Biographical Note:
Craft and Folk Art Museum Research Library Administrative Assistant and Registrar’s Assistant in eighties and early nineties. Craft and Folk Art Museum Shop Assistant and Co-Manager 1989-90.

17. Interview of John W. Outterbridge

Topic:
African American History
Art
Length:
19.75 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series African American Artists of Los Angeles document significant African American Artists and others in the Los Angeles metropolitan area who have worked to expand exhibition opportunities and public support for African American visual culture. The series was made possibl...
Biographical Note:
African American artist and community-activist. First director of the Watts Towers Art Center in Los Angeles.

18. Interview of Cecil Fergerson

Topic:
African American History
Art
Length:
16.65 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series African American Artists of Los Angeles document significant African American Artists and others in the Los Angeles metropolitan area who have worked to expand exhibition opportunities and public support for African American visual culture. The series was made possibl...
Biographical Note:
African American art curator and community-activist. Co-founder of the Black Arts Council, advocate for African American exhibits at LACMA, and exhibit creator in community venues.

19. Interview of John Browse

Topic:
Art
Length:
3.75 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM), founded in Los Angeles by Edith and Frank Wyle, grew out of The Egg and The Eye, a commercial art gallery/restaurant devoted to international contemporary craft and folk art—and (in the restaurant) omelettes. The gallery opened November 1, 1965 at 5814 Wilsh...
Biographical Note:
Assistant Director, Egg and The Eye Gallery, 1971 – 1976. Craft and Folk Art Museum Shop Manager, 1982 – 1989.