Reminiscences of Nell Blaine : oral history, 1979.

Biographical Note

Artist.

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education in Virginia; public reaction to abstract art in 1930s and 1940s; Hans Hofmann as teacher; gallery and museum scene in New York, 1940s; transition from abstract to figurative art; trip to France, 1950; associations with New York School poets, 1950s; work in publishing industry; New School for Social Research; illnesses.

Subjects

• Art, Abstract.
• Art, American--20th century.
• Artists--Interviews.
• Art museums.
• Blaine, Nell, 1922-1996.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.
• Skillion, Anne, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

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