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Oral history interview with Russell Cowles, 1969 April 16

Catalog Data

Interviewee:
Cowles, Russell, 1887-1979  Search this
Interviewer:
Cummings, Paul  Search this
Subject:
Cox, Kenyon  Search this
Cumming, Charles Atherton  Search this
Dasburg, Andrew  Search this
Faulkner, Barry  Search this
Hatfield, Dalzell  Search this
Volk, Douglas  Search this
Type:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Place of publication, production, or execution:
United States
Physical Description:
32 Pages, Transcript
General Note:
Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 41 min.
Summary:
An interview of Russell Cowles conducted 1969 April 16, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Cowles speaks of growing up in Iowa; Iowa landscapes; his education; working in Charles Cumming's studio; his studies at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design; working as an assistant to Barry Faulkner; his Prix De Rome fellowship, 1915-1920; his travels to China, Japan, Java and elsewhere; the Santa Fe art colony in the 1930s; dealers; his photographs; representational painting; his reaction to the Armory Show of 1913; his reading tastes; painting from memory. He recalls Kenyon Cox, Andrew Michael Dasburg, Dalzell Hatfield, and Douglas Volk.
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Russell Cowles, 1969 April 16. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Biography Note:
Russell Cowles (1887-1979) was a painter, New York, New York.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
This interview is 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.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)13174
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212041
AAA_collcode_cowles69
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_212041