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51. Interview of Claire Falkenstein

Topic:
Art
Length:
13.5 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:
Sculptor, painter, printmaker, jewelry designer, and teacher.

55. Interview of Jules Engel

Topic:
Art
Film and Television
Length:
9 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:
Animator, director, and filmmaker. Co-founder of Format Films. Founding director and chair of the Department of Animation and Experimental Film at the California Institute of the Arts.

56. Interview of Craig Kauffman

Topic:
Art
Length:
7 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:
Sculptor and painter.

57. Interview of Oliver Andrews

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...
Biographical Note:
Sculptor and UCLA professor of art.

58. Interview of June Wayne (2011)

Topic:
Art
Length:
8.75 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:
Printmaker, tapestry designer, and painter. Founder of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop.

59. 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.

60. Interview of Tony Delap

Topic:
Art
Length:
7 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 University of California, Santa Barbara professor of art.

61. Interview of William Dole

Topic:
Art
Length:
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...

62. Interview of E. Maurice Bloch

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
Art
UCLA Faculty
Length:
24.4 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
UCLA professor of art history. Head of UCLA's Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.

63. 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.

64. Interview of Pratapaditya Pal

Topic:
Art
Length:
15.75 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Immigrant from India and senior curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Acting director and curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

65. Interview of Thomas H. Garver

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

66. Interview of Gordon Wagner

Topic:
Art
Length:
17.75 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Assemblage artist and painter.

67. 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.

68. Interview of Paul Soldner

Topic:
Art
Length:
4 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Ceramics artist known for a Japanese-influenced American raku style.

71. Interview of Richard Koshalek

Topic:
Art
Length:
10.6 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles and president of the Art Center College of Design.

72. 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.

73. Interview of Nancy Angelo

Topic:
Social Movements
Women's Issues
Art
Length:
5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Women’s Activist Lives in Los Angeles is a series of interviews done by graduate research assistants under the auspices of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. The series addresses the diverse ways in which women’s social movement activities affected public policy and transformed civic institut...
Biographical Note:
Performance and video artist. Involved in the Women’s Building, a center for feminist art in Los Angeles.

74. Interview of Irving Blum

Topic:
Art
Length:
6.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Owner of the Ferus Gallery and the Irving Blum Gallery.

75. Interview of Fred Meiers

Topic:
Art
Length:
13.25 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Art collector of Mexican folk art. Donor to the UCLA Museum of Cultural History and the Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art.

76. Interview of Beatrice Gersh

Topic:
Art
Length:
4.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Art collector and wife of Gersh agency founder Phil Gersh. Trustee and advocate for the creation of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

77. Interview of Kenneth Donahue

Topic:
Art
Length:
13 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

78. Interview of Conrad Buff

Topic:
Art
Length:
10 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Artist and co-creator with his wife, Mary Buff, of illustrated children’s book.

79. Interview of Robert A. Rowan

Topic:
Art
Length:
6 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
President of the Pasadena Art Museum.

80. Interview of William Pajaud

Topic:
African American History
Art
Length:
6.2 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.

81. Interview of Noah Purifoy

Topic:
African American History
Art
Length:
6.35 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. Creator of ten acres of sculpture near Joshua Tree.

82. 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.

83. Interview of John Riddle

Topic:
African American History
Art
Length:
5.8 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.

84. Interview of Elizabeth S. Burton

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:
Member of the board of trustees at the Pasadena Art Museum. Chair of the museum’s Art Alliance.

85. Interview of Blanche Magurn 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.

86. Interview of Thomas W. Leavitt

Topic:
Art
Length:
3 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:
Director of the Pasadena Art Museum.

87. Interview of Martha Bertonneau Padve

Topic:
Art
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:
Vice-president of the Pasadena Art Museum board of trustees.

88. Interview of Suzanne Jackson

Topic:
African American History
Art
Length:
9.2 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 founder of Gallery 32 in Los Angeles.

89. 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.

90. Interview of Betye Saar

Topic:
African American History
Art
Length:
5.10 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.

91. Interview of Marvin Harden

Topic:
African American History
Art
Length:
3.3 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 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA).

92. Interview of Kinshasha Holman Conwill

Topic:
African American History
Art
Length:
2.65 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 artist. Director of the Studio Museum in Harlem.

93. Interview of Elizabeth Hanson

Topic:
Art
Length:
2.25 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:
Member of the board of trustees of the Pasadena Art Museum. Co-director of the museum’s California Design exhibitions.

94. Interview of Curtis Tann

Topic:
African American History
Art
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...

95. 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.

96. Interview of Barbara Meiers

Topic:
Art
Length:
13.25 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Art collector of Mexican folk art. Donor to the UCLA Museum of Cultural History and the Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art.

97. Interview of Samella Lewis

Topic:
African American History
Art
Length:
2.25 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. Founder of the International Review of African American Art and the Museum of African American Art in Los Angeles.

98. Interview of Peter Voulkos

Topic:
Art
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Ceramics artist. Founder of the ceramics program at UC Berkeley and the art ceramics department at the Otis College of Art and Design.

99. Interview of Ruth G. Waddy

Topic:
African American History
Art
Length:
6.35 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. Founder of the organization Art West Associated.

100. 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.