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Archives of American Art
Video interviews with Ralph Rosenthal and Nat Jacobsen / Moshe Alon, producer
Summary
- Collection ID:
- AAA.moshalon
- Creators:
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Alon, Moshe, 1914-
- Dates:
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c1995
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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1 Itemvideocassette (VHS) (2 hrs.)sd., col.1/2 in.
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
The Rosenthal interview, presumably talking with Moshe Alon (off camera) discusses his training and teaching at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston School, and Boston University, and in the Boston Public Schools where he was the first Jewish art teacher. He mentions Alan Crite, Philip Hale, Bernard Chaet, Karl Zerbe.
Scope and Contents
The second and lengthier (approx. 1 1/2 hrs.) is an interview with Nat Jacobson, and his interest in becoming an artist, museum schools, painting classes, the Massachusetts College of Art, serving in the army, and attending the MFA, Boston School on the GI Bill, commissions, and his mural at Boston University.
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Keywords
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Artists -- Massachusetts -- Interviews | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Sculptors -- Massachusetts -- Interviews | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Video recordings | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Rosenthal, Ralph, 1912-2003 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Jacobson, Nat | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Alon, Moshe, 1914- | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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