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12. 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.

13. 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.

14. Interview of Lois Boardman

Topic:
Art
Length:
2.15 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:
Program director of the Pasadena Art Museum.

15. Interview of Ruth Bowman

Topic:
Art
Length:
1.75 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:
Founding member of Craft and Folk Art Museum Board of Trustees, 1975 – 1983.

16. Interview of Frances Lasker Brody

Topic:
Art
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Arts advocate and collector. Benefactor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Huntington Library.

17. Interview of Laurie Brooks

Topic:
Community History
UCLA and University of California History
Art
UCLA History: Events and Projects
Theater
Literature
Music
Length:
1.5 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:
Executive director of the William James Association. Advocate for legislative support to reinstate arts programming in correctional institutions.

18. Interview of Jean Brown

Topic:
Art
Length:
8hrs.
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:
Collector of contemporary art and archival materials relating to the Dada and Surrealist movements. Organizer of the Jean Brown Archives at Shaker Seed House in Tyringham, Massachusetts.

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.

20. 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.