Oral history interview with Sam Maitin | Smithsonian Institution

Object Details

General: Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hrs., 38 min.

Interviewee: Maitin, Sam
Interviewer: Hunter, Anne S.
Names: Philadelphia Museum of Art. School of Industrial Art; Print Club (Philadelphia, Pa.); Brady, Luther W., 1925-; Goodman, Ronald; McNulty, Kneeland

Topic: Prints -- 20th century -- Technique; Prints -- 20th century -- Study and teaching; Printmakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews

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.

Sponsor: 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.

Biographical / Historical: Samuel C. Maitin (1928-2004) was a printmaker, painter, and sculptor) from Philadelphia, Pa.

Type: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Pages; Interviews; Sound recordings

Scope and Contents: An interview of Samuel C. Maitin conducted 1991 July 24, by Anne Schuster Hunter, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.; Maitin discusses his Russian Jewish family background; his early life in Philadelphia; art studies at the Philadelphia Museum school of Industrial Art and the University of Pennsylvania; exhibitions of his work at the Print Club of Philadelphia; printmaking techniques, typography, advertising work and posters he designed; his Guggenheim fellowship and working with Ronald Goodman; commissions including a mural for the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia; and the Philadelphia art scene. He recalls collector Luther Brady and print curator Kneeland (Ding) McNulty.