Archives of American Art

Video interviews with Ralph Rosenthal and Nat Jacobsen / Moshe Alon, producer

Summary

Collection ID:
AAA.moshalon
Creators:
Alon, Moshe, 1914-
Dates:
c1995
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
1 Item
videocassette (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
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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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