Item Information
Title: Interview about Arshile Gorky with Ibram and Ernestine Lassaw
Date: 1997 July 31
Physical Details: 2 sound cassettes (microcassette) ; 1 hr., 30 min., 4 sec.
Description: Recording has blank moments. Tape 02, Side 01 is part of item 25094. Ibram Lassaw and Ernestine Lassaw, interviewed by Hayden Herrera, discuss their experiences with Arshile Gorky. Discussion topics are wide-ranging and include meetings of American Abstract Artists, the wider society's antagonism toward abstract art, artists' scene in the 1930s and their politics, Arshile Gorky's personality and character, Ibram Lassaw's career as a sculptor, and clay classes at the Brooklyn Children's Museum in 1927-1928. People mentioned include Balcomb Greene, Gertrude Greene, Harry Holtzman, George L.K. Morris.
Creator: Lassaw, Ibram, 1913-2003
Forms part of: Hayden Herrera papers, 1926-2006, bulk 1984-1997
Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
Citation Information: Ibram Lassaw and Hayden Herrera. Interview about Arshile Gorky with Ibram and Ernestine Lassaw, 1997 July 31. Hayden Herrera papers, 1926-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Availability: This item has been digitally reformatted. It is available by requesting an appointment in the Archives of American Art's reading rooms, or in certain situations as a Reproduction Request.
Digital ID: 25069