The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jack Whitten.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description1 online resource (11 video files (5 hr., 19 min., 10 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2016.033
Subjects

Other author/creatorWhitten, Jack, 1939-2018, interviewee.
Other author/creatorCole, Harriette, interviewer.
Other author/creatorStearns, Scott, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Jack Whitten
Portion of title Jack Whitten
Abstract Visual artist Jack Whitten was born on December 5, 1939 in Bessemer, Alabama. He received his B.F.A. degree from The Cooper Union in 1964. Though Whitten's early work was influenced by Willem de Kooning and Norman Lewis, his style evolved over his five-decade career. He experimented with innovative pigments, painting tools of his own design, and acrylic tesserae mosaics. Whitten was a professor at numerous institutions including Cooper Union and Manhattan Community College. His paintings have been exhibited widely since 1965, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Studio Museum in Harlem, as well as internationally at Art Basel, the 55th Venice Biennale and his 2014 retrospective, Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting. Whitten is a former Guggenheim fellow, the 2015 National Medal of Arts recipient, and a National Academy inductee. He held honorary doctorates from San Francisco Art Institute and Brandeis University.
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Harriette Cole, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded New York, New York 2016 October 3.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded New York, New York 2016 October 27.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2016.033 HistoryMakers

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