| Title: |
Reminiscences of Sally Michael Avery
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A20
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Childhood, family and education; marriage to Milton Avery; daughter, March; career as painter; reminiscences of Milton Avery: family background, influence of childhood and nature on painting, work for Works Progress Administration, prizes, painting philosophy, techniques and uses of media, work habits, relationship with art critics, associations with galleries; Avery family members' exhibitions and retrospectives, 1928-78; recollections of Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Marsden Hartley, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Hirshhorn and others.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 151 leaves, Tape: 2 reels
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. Microfiche copy available for purchase. (Columbia University oral history collection, part V, published by Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT).
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1979 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Avery, Sally
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker occupation: |
Painter
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| Document date: |
1979
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| Interviewer: |
Sheaffer, Louis
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Art criticism; Art galleries, Commercial; Art, Modern--20th century; Artists; Oral history; Painting; Women artists
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Avery, Milton, 1885-1965; Avery, Sally Michael
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0017946-13389
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