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- Title
Expressionist Herbert Gentry: An Interview.
- Authors
Kirwin, Liza
- Abstract
This is an interview of Herbert Gentry (Oral History Interview with Herbert Gentry, 1991 May 23, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution), conducted May 23, 1991 by Liza Kirwin for the Archives of American Art. In the interview Gentry recalls his childhood in Harlem; musicians he met and was influenced by, including Duke Ellington and Count Bassie; studies at New York University and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and L'Academie de la Grand Chaumiere under the G.I. Bill; his jazz club/gallery in Montparnasse; friendships with Romare Bearden and Beauford Delaney; early exhibitions; his marriages; identification with the artist's group COBRA; and studios in Sweden and New York. The interview is also available as a sound recording via 2 cassettes from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the U.S. National Park Service.
- Subjects
GENTRY, Herbert; AFRICAN American painters; AFRICAN American painting; FRIENDSHIP; UNITED States. Works Progress Administration
- Publication
Journal of Pan African Studies, 2016, Vol 9, Issue 9, p204
- ISSN
0888-6601
- Publication type
Interview