Object Details
sova.aaa.ito78
- General
- Originally recorded on 1 tape reel (5 in.).
- Interviewee
- Ito, Miyoko, 1918-1983
- Interviewer
- Barrie, Dennis
- Names
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Ox-Bow Summer School of Painting
- Smith College
- Baum, Don, 1922-
- Berdich, Vera, 1915-2003
- Chapin, Francis, 1899-1965
- Cohen, George, 1913-1980
- Edmondson, Leonard, 1916-
- Haley, John, 1905-1991
- Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966
- Johnston, Ynez, 1920-
- Kahn, Max, 1903-2005
- Lanyon, Ellen
- Loran, Erle, 1905-1999
- Mitchell, Joan, 1926-1992
- Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946
- Ryder, Worth Allen, 1884-1960
- Venturi, Lionello, 1885-1961
- Occupation
- Painters -- Chicago -- Illinois
- Topic
- Art, American
- Asian American art
- Asian American artists
- Asian American painters
- Japanese American art
- Japanese American artists
- Japanese American painting
- Women artists
- Women painters
- Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment -- 1942-1945
- 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 others.
- Interviewee
- Ito, Miyoko, 1918-1983
- Interviewer
- Barrie, Dennis
- 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
- Miyoko Ito (1918-1983) was a Japanese American painter based in Chicago, Illinois.
- Extent
- 2 Items (Sound recording: 2 sound files, digital, wav file)
- 41 Pages (Transcript)
- Date
- 1978 July 20
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.ito78
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Scope and Contents
- An interview of Miyoko Ito conducted 1978 July 20, by Dennis Barrie, for the Archives of American Art.
- Ito discusses her family background; being in Japan at an early age, attending school and learning calligraphy; returning to California in 1928; excelling in drawing and painting; attending Berkeley High School; studying watercolor at Berkeley School of Water Color; studying under Erle Loran, Worth Ryder, John Haley; the influence of Hans Hofmann; being in internment camp (Camp Rann); attending Smith College, Northampton to study painting under instructor George Cohen; attending the Art Institue of Chicago and meeting Francis Chapin and Joan Mitchell; being influenced by Bonnard; moving into lithography at Oxbow; studying under Max Kahn; doing printmaking and etching; and participating in the Momentum Shows. Ito mentions Ynez Johnston, Leonard Edmondson, Lionel Venturi, Ellen Lanyon, Don Baum, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Vera Berdich.
AAA.ito78
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AAA.ito78
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- Record ID
- ebl-1596366091881-1596366091884-0

