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Archives of American Art
Oral history interview with Stuyvesant Van Veen
Summary
- Collection ID:
- AAA.vanvee81
- Creators:
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Van Veen, StuyvesantNathan, Emily
- Dates:
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1981 May 5-14
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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51 PagesTranscript
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
An interview of Stuyvesant Van Veen conducted 1981 May 5-14, by Emily Nathan, for the Archives of American Art.
Scope and Contents
Van Veen speaks of his family background and parental influence; his early training, and studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; his army service; some of his experiences as a young artist; early exhibits of his work; his mural work; anthropological drawings he did under Franz Boas for Columbia University in the 1930s. He recalls Max Beckmann, Thomas Hart Benton, Leon Kroll, Daniel Catton Rich and Hudson Dean Walker.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Stuyvesant Van Veen (1910-1988) was a painter from New York, N.Y.
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' 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
More Information
General
General
Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 36 min.
Keywords
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| Drawing -- New York (State) -- New York | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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| Interviews | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Beckmann, Max, 1884-1950 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Kroll, Leon, 1884-1974 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Rich, Daniel Catton, 1904-1976 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Walker, Hudson D. (Hudson Dean), 1907-1976 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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