Osborne, Elizabeth, b. 1936

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Elizabeth Osborne interview, 1991 May 24

Sound recording: 3 sound cassettes
Transcript: 126 p. (on partial microfilm reel)
Reel(s): 4778

An interview of Elizabeth Osborne conducted by Cynthia Veloric for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.

Osborne discusses her family and early life; studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts including her teachers Franklin Watkins and Hobson Pittman; going to France on a Fulbright in 1963; teaching at the Academy and changes over the years; exhibiting at the Perakis, Makler, Marian Locks, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, and Fischbach galleries, and a general discussion of the Philadelphia gallery scene, sales and collectors; the various media she works in including watercolor, acrylic, oil, and prints; changes in subject matter including the Nava series, landscapes and still lifes; and being a woman artist.

This interview is part of the Archives' 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.

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