Archives of American Art

Oral history interview with Neil Welliver

Summary

(Electronic Resource)

Oral history interview with Neil Welliver, 1996 November 14, Transcript
Collection ID:
AAA.welliv96
Creators:
Welliver, Neil
Brown, Robert F.
Dates:
1996 November 14
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
2 Sound cassettes
Sound recording (2 hr., 8 min.)
analog
45 Pages
Transcript
Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
An interview of Neil Welliver conducted 1996 November 14, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art, in Welliver's home in Lincolnville, Maine.
Scope and Contents
Welliver talks about his childhood in Pennsylvania; his self-education; his marriage to a fashion illustrator; attending the Philadelphia Museum College of Art (now University of the Arts), receiving a BFA in 1953; teaching art in a public school; attending the Yale School of Art (MFA 1955) and teachers there; going to Maine; teaching at Yale (1955-1965); teaching at the University of Pennsylvania (1966-1989) at the graduate level. He recalls architect Louis Kahn at Yale and then at Pennsylvania; his various New York dealers from the 1960s, including Eleanor Ward at Stable Gallery, Aladar Marburger at Fischbach Gallery, and Pierre Lefraie at Marlborough Gallery; various art world friends, including Hilton Kramer, Clement Greenberg, and Fairfield Porter; and receiving an honorary doctorate of fine arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1996.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Neil Welliver (1929-2005) was a painter and teacher in Lincolnville, Maine.
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.
Existence and Location of Copies
Transcript is available on the Archive of American Art's website.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This interview is 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 administrators.
Digital Content

(Electronic Resource)

Oral history interview with Neil Welliver, 1996 November 14, Transcript

(Sound Recording)

Oral history interview with Neil Welliver, 1996 November 14, Digital Sound Recording (Excerpt)
More Information
General
General
Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 8 min.
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