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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jack Whitten
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jack Whitten.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (11 video files (5 hr., 19 min., 10 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Visual artist Jack Whitten was born on December 5, 1939 in Bessemer, Alabama. He received his B.F.A. degree from The Cooper Union in 1964. Though Whitten's early work was influenced by Willem de Kooning and Norman Lewis, his style evolved over his five-decade career. He experimented with innovative pigments, painting tools of his own design, and acrylic tesserae mosaics. Whitten was a professor at numerous institutions including Cooper Union and Manhattan Community College. His paintings have been exhibited widely since 1965, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Studio Museum in Harlem, as well as internationally at Art Basel, the 55th Venice Biennale and his 2014 retrospective, Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting. Whitten is a former Guggenheim fellow, the 2015 National Medal of Arts recipient, and a National Academy inductee. He held honorary doctorates from San Francisco Art Institute and Brandeis University.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Jack Whitten
Jack Whitten
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Performers
Harriette Cole, interviewer.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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