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Interviewee:
De Looper, Willem, 1932-2009  Search this
Interviewer:
Forgey, Benjamin F., 1938-  Search this
Subject:
Phillips Collection  Search this
American University (Washington, D.C.). Fine Arts Dept.  Search this
Type:
Interviews
Sound recordings
Place of publication, production, or execution:
District of Columbia
Physical Description:
134 Pages, Transcript
General Note:
Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 8 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hr., 23 min.
Access Note / Rights:
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
Summary:
An interview of Willem De Looper conducted 1992 January 26 and February 29, by Benjamin Forgey, for the Archives of American Art. De Looper discusses growing up in the Hague, in Holland, during WWII; his family and educational background; moving to the United States in 1950; his U.S. Army service; his studies at American University and his teachers including Robert Gates, Ben Summerford, William Calfee, and Sarah Baker; his early experiments with abstraction; his first studio in Washington, D.C.; exhibiting at the Jefferson Place Gallery in the 1960s and later at the B.R. Kornblatt Gallery; working at the Phillips Collection for twenty-five years; and materials, techniques, and influences in his painting. He recalls Tom Downing, the Institute of Contemporary Art (Washington, D.C.), John Gernand, Sam Gilliam, Michael Clark, Duncan and Marjorie Phillips, Harold Giese, William Woodward, Jim McLaughlin, and others.
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Willem De Looper, 1992 January 26-February 29. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
Transcript available on-line.
Funding:
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.
Biography Note:
Willem De Looper (1932-2009) was a painter from Washington, D.C.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
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.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
Art students -- Washington (D.C.) -- Interviews  Search this
Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Washington (D.C.)  Search this
World War, 1939-1945  Search this
Art -- Philosophy  Search this
Art criticism  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)12592
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214744
AAA_collcode_deloop92
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_214744