Overview
Collection Information
Size: 35 Pages, Transcript
Format: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 47 min.
Summary: An interview of Madeleine L'Engle conducted 1987 Sept. 2, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
L'Engle recalls the art scene in a Provincetown and Truro, Massachusetts from the 1920s-1970s; her parents as artists; and many other artists who lived and worked on Cape Cod. She discusses her time spent in France as a child; studying painting with Jerry Farsnsworth; her family's association with William and Margeurite Zorach; her time painting in Mexico on the GI Bill after serving in the Navy, and her life in Provincetown.
Biographical/Historical Note
Madeleine L'Engle (1915-1989) was a painter from New York City and Truro, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of painters William and Lucy L'Engle. She is a cousin of the author of the same name.
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 the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service. This interview received support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative Pool.
