Archives of American Art

Oral history interview with Gussie Du Jardin

Summary

(Electronic Resource)

Oral history interview with Gussie Du Jardin, 1983 October 11, Transcript
Collection ID:
AAA.dujard83
Creators:
Du Jardin, Gussie, 1918-2006
Udall, Sharyn Rohlfsen
Dates:
1983 October 11
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
2 Items
sound files
digital, wav file
16 Pages
Transcript
Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
An interview of Gussie Du Jardin conducted 1983 October 11, by Sharyn R. Udall, for the Archives of American Art.
Scope and Contents
Du Jardin speaks of her lichen and hexagonal paintings; living in New Mexico with her husband, painter Elmer Schooley; growing up in Colorado, Nevada, and Hawaii; her health issues as a child; earning her master's degree at the University of Iowa; being instructed by Philip Guston; the affect World War II had on her family; being a female painter as well as being married to a male painter; her process of using microscopic images to guide and inform her painting; her meeting and acquaintance with Georgia O'Keeffe.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Gussie Du Jardin (1918-2006) was a painter from Roswell, New Mexico.

Administration

Sponsor
Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.

Digital Content

(Electronic Resource)

Oral history interview with Gussie Du Jardin, 1983 October 11, Transcript

(Sound Recording)

Oral history interview with Gussie Du Jardin, 1983 October 11, Digital Sound Recording (Excerpt)

More Information

General

General
Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 5 min.

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