Oral history interview with Herman Maril, 1965 September 5

Object Details

Place of publication, production, or execution

United States

Physical Description

39 Pages, Transcript

General Note

Originally recorded on 1 sound tape. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr.

Summary

An interview of Herman Maril conducted 1965 September 5, by Dorothy Seckler, for the Archives of American Art.

Maril speaks of growing up in Baltimore, Maryland.; attending the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts; visiting museums in the Washington, D.C. area; exhibiting his paintings in Washington, D.C. galleries and New York City galleries; working for the Treasury Art Project; surviving the Great Depression; teaching at the Cummington School of Art in Cummington, Massachusetts; serving in the Army Air Corps during WWII; painting murals with the Public Buildings Administration; teaching at the King-Smith School, the Washington Workshop of the Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the University of Maryland; living in Provincetown; painting and his influences; being interviewed for books and a short film. Maril also recalls Roger Frye, Paul Cézanne, Henry Roben, Charles Walther, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Edward Rowan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chaim Gross, Henri Matisse, Piero della Francesca, Mino Argento, Olin Dows, Giotto di Bondone, Georges Henri Rouault, Wassily Kandinksy, Charles Walthrop, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Eliot O'Hara, Sheldon Cheney, Florence Watson, Jacques Lipchitz, Mason F. Lord, and others.

Citation

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Herman Maril, 1965 September 5. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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.

Biography Note

Herman Maril (1908-1986) was a painter and printmaker from Baltimore, Maryland.

Language Note

English .

Provenance

These interviews are 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 others.

Location Note

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001

Data Source

Archives of American Art

Record number

(DSI-AAA_CollID)11701

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214124

AAA_collcode_maril65

interviewee

Maril, Herman, 1908-1986

interviewer

Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994

Subject

Argento, Mino

Cézanne, Paul

Cheney, Sheldon

De Kooning, Willem

Dows, Olin

Giotto

Gross, Chaim

Kandinsky, Wassily

Kline, Franz

Matisse, Henri

O'Hara, Eliot

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)

Cummington School of the Arts

King-Smith Playhouse and School of Theatre Arts (Washington, D.C.)

Maryland Institute, College of Art

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Washington Workshop Center for the Arts

Type

Sound recordings

Interviews

Topic

Depressions -- 1929

Record ID

AAADCD_oh_214124

Usage

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