The WPI Oral Histories

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The WPI Oral Histories

The WPI Oral Histories provide unprecedented firsthand accounts from art historians, archivists, gallerists, and others with close connections to WPI’s research projects. Issued in installments, each oral history will complement the WPI’s unique material. The Wildenstein Plattner Institute Inc. is a non-profit foundation dedicated to the study of art and to fostering the accessibility, cataloguing, and digitization of archival materials that support critical research in the field. Visit www.wpi.art for more information.

  1. WPI Oral History: Jim Dine on Tom Wesselmann

    09/10/2024

    WPI Oral History: Jim Dine on Tom Wesselmann

    Jim Dine is an American artist active from the mid-1950s onward whose work defies neat categorization. An accomplished painter, printmaker, sculptor, and as of recently, poet, Dine is often closely associated with both the Pop Art and Neo-Expressionist movements. Along with Marcus Ratliff and Wesselmann, with assistance from Judson Church minister Bud Scott, he co-founded the Judson Gallery, an experimental art space that hosted exhibitions from all three co-founders as well as fellow artists like Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow. Dine, like Wesselmann, also hails from Cincinnati, Ohio, where he first met Wesselmann as a young man. Highlights from his interview include candid reflection on Wesselmann’s shifting artistic phases and influences, memories of the Happenings, discussion of Wesselmann’s relationship with psychoanalysis, and an examination of Dine’s own artistic process.

    1 h 4 min
  2. WPI Oral History: Susan Stedman on Romare Bearden

    02/07/2024

    WPI Oral History: Susan Stedman on Romare Bearden

    Susan Stedman is a curator, arts administrator and manager for artist’s estates. She has held positions at the Museum of Modern Art and the New York State Council of the Arts. She met Romare Bearden in the 1960s and was a friend—and fierce supporter of his work—until his passing. Highlights of her oral history include descriptions of Bearden and the artistic climate in the 1960s and 1970s, memories of meeting her husband, artist William “Bill” Majors, and recollections of the Spiral collective and the Cinque Gallery.

    1 h 15 min
  3. WPI Oral History: Sheila Rohan on Romare Bearden

    11/03/2024

    WPI Oral History: Sheila Rohan on Romare Bearden

    Sheila Rohan is the youngest sister of Nanette Rohan Bearden and the sister-in-law of Romare Bearden. She was a principal dancer of the founding company of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Later, she was a soloist and Ballet Mistress for the Nanette Bearden Contemporary Dance Theatre. Rohan was instrumental in the development of the Romare Bearden Foundation and serves on the board of directors. Highlights of her oral history include memories of her time dancing under Arthur Mitchell at the Dance Theatre of Harlem, recollections of visits to St. Maartens with Romare and Nanette, and a discussion of her and her sisters’ work to preserve Bearden’s artistic legacy.

    47 min
  4. WPI Oral History: Myron Schwartzman on Romare Bearden

    13/11/2023

    WPI Oral History: Myron Schwartzman on Romare Bearden

    Myron Schwartzman, Professor Emeritus of English at Baruch College, is the author of the biography Romare Bearden: His Life and Art (1990). Having befriended Bearden in 1977, Schwartzman conducted extensive interviews with the artist over the course of several years, deepening their relationship and informing his narrative. Highlights of the interview include depictions of Schwartzman’s visits to Bearden’s family home on St. Maarten and to Bearden’s birthplace of Charlotte, North Carolina; memories of spending time with Bearden and friends in the Long Island City studio; and discussions of the personal, artistic, and historical roots of Bearden’s oeuvre.

    1 h 14 min
  5. WPI Oral History: Jerald Melberg on Romare Bearden

    05/09/2023

    WPI Oral History: Jerald Melberg on Romare Bearden

    Jerald Melberg has owned and operated the Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina for the past forty years. Prior to opening the gallery, Melberg was a curator at the Mint Museum where he curated the retrospective, Romare Bearden, 1970-1980. Having befriended Bearden while working on the exhibition, Melberg subsequently curated several exhibitions of his work at his gallery. Highlights from Melberg's oral history include anecdotes of his first meetings with Bearden, memories of challenges and triumphs while curating the major retrospective at the Mint, and reflections on Bearden's legacy today.  KEYWORDS: Romare Bearden, Mint Museum, curation, Arne Ekstrom, retrospectives, gallerists, art dealers, Al Murray, collages, recordkeeping, Milton Bloch, collective memory

    1 h 18 min
  6. WPI Oral History: Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu on Eva Gonzalès

    08/05/2023

    WPI Oral History: Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu on Eva Gonzalès

    This interview was conducted in French. Visit the Gonzalès Oral History webpage to download a French or English transcript. Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu is a French art historian specializing in late 19th-century and early 20th-century French painting. While working on the catalogue raisonné of Henri Manguin, she met Jacques de Mons, with whom she published a catalogue raisonné of Eva Gonzalès’s works in 1990. Sainsaulieu’s interview gives fascinating insight into her personal background with art and architecture that informs her research, as well as detailed historical context for Gonzalès’ life, works, and contemporary significance. KEYWORDS: Eva Gonzalès, Théodore Géricault, Henri Manguin, Charles Joshua Chaplin, Édouard Manet, Jacques de Mons, Reims Cathedral, Berthe Morisot, French Impressionism, archival research, droit moral, catalogue raisonnés

    1 h 8 min
  7. WPI Oral History: Johanne Bryant-Reid on Romare Bearden

    05/04/2023

    WPI Oral History: Johanne Bryant-Reid on Romare Bearden

    Johanne Bryant-Reid is the current co-director of the Romare Bearden Foundation, as well as a serious art collector and dedicated philanthropist. While working as a Human Resources Executive at Merrill Lynch in New York, Bryant-Reid became immersed in New York’s art scene, often using art as a tool for philanthropic fundraising. She joined the Board of the RBF in 2002, and became co-director in 2009. Highlights of her oral history include her first meeting with Bearden, memories of the artists’ salons and social circles of the 1980s, and reflections on her own art collection. KEYWORDS: Romare Bearden Foundation, collage, Russell Goings, Cordier & Ekstrom, Roy Crosse, art collectors, Norman Lewis, Merrill Lynch, artists’ estates, E.T. Williams, Grace Stanislaus, Diedra Harris-Kelley, artists’ archives, From Process to Print, Cinque Gallery

    53 min

  8. 21/02/2023

    WPI Oral History: Allan Rubin and Candy Spilner on Tom Wesselmann

    Allan Rubin and Candy Spilner were studio assistants to Tom Wesselmann between the late 1970s and early 2000s. Both accomplished artists in their own careers separate from Wesselmann, the two met at Cooper Union in 1969 and have been a couple ever since. Their interview delves into many different aspects of labor in a studio setting: balancing one’s own creative aspirations with the necessities of financing them, fabricating work for another artist, the place of ego within art, and maintaining boundaries between one’s own artistic practice and their employer’s, among others. Highlights include descriptions of daily studio life in the 1980s, detailed accounts of working in the various mediums Wesselmann experimented with over the course of his career, and memories of traveling to accompany and install international Wesselmann exhibitions. KEYWORDS: studio assistants, Great American Nudes, Cooper Union, Janis Gallery, Green Gallery, Standing Still Lifes, Monica Serra, Jeffrey Sturges, printmaking, laser cuts, three-dimensional sculpture, recordkeeping practices, ledger books, Ivan Karp, Jacques Kaplan

    1 h 32 min
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The WPI Oral Histories provide unprecedented firsthand accounts from art historians, archivists, gallerists, and others with close connections to WPI’s research projects. Issued in installments, each oral history will complement the WPI’s unique material. The Wildenstein Plattner Institute Inc. is a non-profit foundation dedicated to the study of art and to fostering the accessibility, cataloguing, and digitization of archival materials that support critical research in the field. Visit www.wpi.art for more information.

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    Wildenstein Plattner Institute
  • Années d’activité
    2023 - 2024
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