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Oral history interview with Bert Pumphrey, Jr. [videorecording], 2000 Apr. 26

Pumphrey, Bert, 1916-2002

Painter

Overview

Collection Information

Size: 2 Items, VHS videocassettes (148 min.), sd., col.; 2 video files (2 hrs., 30 min.), digital, mov

Format: Originally recorded on 2 videocassettes. Duration is 2 hr., 28 min.

Summary: A video interview of Bertrem Pumphrey, Jr. conducted 2000 Apr. 26, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, in Pumphrey's home in South Pasadena, Calif.

Undertaken as a collaboration with videographer Bradford Macneil, the afternoon and evening sessions included interviews with family members, including his granddaughters.

Biographical/Historical Note

Bertrem Pumphrey, Jr. (1916-2002) was a painter in South Pasadena, Calif.

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.

Language Note

English .

How to Use This Collection

For information on how to access this interview contact Reference Services.

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Bert Pumphrey, Jr. [videorecording], 2000 Apr. 26. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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