Oral history interview with Roy Superior
Object Details
- General
- Originally recorded on 4 memory cards. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital sound files. Duration is 6 hr., 28 min.
- Interviewee
- Superior, Roy, 1934-2013
- Interviewer
- Riedel, Mija, 1958-
- Creator
- Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
- Names
- Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
- Topic
- Sculptors -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
- Painters -- Massachusetts -- 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.
- Interviewee
- Superior, Roy, 1934-2013
- Interviewer
- Riedel, Mija, 1958-
- Creator
- Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America
- Sponsor
- Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.
- Biographical / Historical
- Roy Superior (1934-2013) was a wood artist and educator in Williamsburg, Massachusetts. Mija Riedel (1958-) is a writer and independent scholar in San Francisco, California.
- Extent
- 137 Pages (Transcript)
- Date
- 2010 June 29-30
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.superr10
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Scope and Contents
- An interview of Roy Superior conducted 2010 June 29 and 30, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Superior's home and studio, in Williamsburg, Massachusetts.
- Record ID
- ebl-1596384045115-1596384045117-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
Oral history interview with Roy Superior, 2010 June 29-30, Digital Sound Recording (Excerpt)
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