Oral history interview with Edith Feldenheimer, 1982 Nov. 23-Dec. 7, Transcript
Oral history interview with Edith Feldenheimer, 1982 Nov. 23-Dec. 7, Digital Sound Recording (Excerpt)
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
An interview of Edith Feldenheimer conducted 1982 Nov. 23 and Dec. 7, by Marion W. Kolisch, for the Archives of American Art's Northwest Oral History Project, in the artist's home, in Portland, Or.
Feldenheimer speaks of her family background; her education in Europe; her early interest in the visual arts and the theater; Reed College and its art program and role in the community; her art collection; archaeological trips to France and Czechoslovakia; understanding contemporary art; and the stature of Oregon and Northwest art.
Transcript available on line.
Transcript also available at the University of Washington, Manuscripts Collection, and at the Oregon Historical Society.
Edith Feldenheimre (1900-1984) is an art patron and collector from Portland, Or.
This interview is part of the Archives' Northwest Oral History Project, begun in 1982 to document the Northwest artistic community through interviews with painters, sculptors, craftsmen, educators, curators, and others, in Oregon, Washington and Montana.