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Oral history interview with Dotty Attie, 2024 August 13-16

Attie, Dotty, 1938-

Painter, Printmaker, Founders (craftsmen)

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Collection Information

Size: 2 Items, audiovisual files (3 hrs., 18 min.), digital, mp4

Summary: An interview with Dotty Attie conducted 2024 August 13-16, by Benjamin Gillespie for the Archives of American Art, at Attie's home and studio in New York, NY.­

Biographical/Historical Note

Interviewee Dotty Attie (1938- ) is a painter based in New York known for her linear and grid-like installations of small paintings that draw from other images and incorporate evocative text. She was also a co-founder of AIR Gallery in New York.

Interviewer Ben Gillespie (1988- ) is the oral historian at the Archives of American Art in Washington, DC.

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 .

Funding

Funding for this interview was provided by the Alice L. Walton Foundation.

How to Use This Collection

This interview is open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.

The Archives of American Art makes its Oral History Program interviews available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. Quotation, reproduction and publication of the recording is governed by restrictions. If an interview has been transcribed, researchers must quote from the transcript. If an interview has not been transcribed, researchers must quote from the recording. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

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