Neuman, Robert S. (Robert Sterling), b. 1926
Art teacher, PainterSan Francisco, Calif., Boston, Mass., Germany, Spain (Show Bio)
Oral history interview with Robert S. Neuman, 1991 May 1 - June 19
Sound recording: 5 sound cassettes
Transcript: 106 p.
An interview of Robert S. Neuman conducted at the artist's home in Winchester, Mass., 1991 May 1 - June 19, by Robert Brown for the Archives of American Art.
Neuman discusses his childhood in Idaho; art training in Idaho and San Francisco; California artists Clyfford Still, Richard Diebenkorn, Hassel Smith, and Nathan Oliveira; WWII service; the School of the Pacific vs. Euro-centric New York; studying in Germany on a Fulbright scholarship; the influence of work by Willi Baumeister and Wolfgang Wols; moving to Boston and the art community there in the 1950s and 1960s; studying in Barcelona on a Guggenheim fellowship; the evolution of his painting in overlapping phases; and his preference for being outside the mainstream art world.
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 administrators.
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