Object Details
sova.aaa.patter82
- General
- Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 33 min.
- Interviewee
- Patterson, Viola, 1898-1984
- Interviewer
- Kingsbury, Martha, 1941-
- Names
- Group of Twelve (Seattle, Wash.)
- Archipenko, Alexander, 1887-1964
- Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949
- Patterson, Ambrose, 1877-1966
- Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
- Occupation
- Painters -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Topic
- Artists -- Northwestern States -- Interviews
- Art, Modern -- Northwestern States
- Art, American -- Northwestern States
- Women artists
- Women painters
- Provenance
- This interview is part of the Archives' Northwest Oral History Project, begun in 1982 to document the Northwest artistic community through interviews with painters, sculptors, craftsmen, educators, curators, and others, in Oregon, Washington and Montana.
- Interviewee
- Patterson, Viola, 1898-1984
- Interviewer
- Kingsbury, Martha, 1941-
- 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
- Viola Patterson (1898-1984) was a painter from Seattle, Wash.
- Extent
- 57 Pages (Transcript)
- Date
- 1982 Oct. 22-29
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.patter82
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Existence and Location of Originals
- Transcript also available at the University of Washington, Manuscripts Collection, and at the Oregon Historical Society.
- Scope and Contents
- An interview of Viola Patterson conducted 1982 Oct. 22-29, by Martha Kingsbury, for the Archives of American Art's Northwest Oral History Project, in the artist's home in Seattle, Wash.
- Patterson speaks of her education; family background; her early interest in art; studying at the University of Washington art department; the influence of Japanese artists; teaching art to children; her husband, Ambrose Patterson, and his life and career; and working on murals with Jose Clement Orozco and Diego Rivera. She recalls Alexander Archipenko. Patterson was a member of the Seattle area progressive artists' collective known as the "Group of Twelve."
- Restrictions
- Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
AAA.patter82
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- Record ID
- ebl-1596288616106-1596288616109-0

