Oral history interview with Elsa Schmid
Object Details
- General
- Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 56 min.
- Interviewee
- Schmid, Elsa, 1897-
- Interviewer
- Coleman, Butler
- Topic
- Sculptors -- Interviews
- Women artists
- Women sculptors
- Women artists
- Provenance
- These interviews are 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
- Schmid, Elsa, 1897-
- Interviewer
- Coleman, Butler
- Biographical / Historical
- Elsa Schmid (1897-1970) was a sculptor, in Rye, N.Y.
- Extent
- 18 Pages (Transcript)
- Date
- 1968 August 1
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.schmid68
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Scope and Contents
- An interview of Elsa Schmid conducted 1968 August 1, by Butler Coleman, for the Archives of American Art.
- Record ID
- ebl-1596378670815-1596378670817-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
Oral history interview with Elsa Schmid, 1968 August 1, Digital Sound Recording (Excerpt)
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