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The collection is arranged as one series.
Some of the sound recordings in this collection were digitized for research access in 2013 and are available at Archives of American Art offices.
The interviews were donated to the Archives of American Art by Maurice Tuchman in 1988.
The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Ricky Gomez in 2019.
Maurice Tuchman (1936- ) was the curator of 20th Century art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Tuchman was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He attended City University of New York for his undergraduate studies and completed a PhD in art history at Columbia University. In 1964, he became the curator of 20th century art at LACMA, where he has established the Art and Technology program and showcased Southern California artists.
The interviews conducted by curator Maurice Tuchman measure 0.4 linear feet and date from 1976. The collection is a series of interviews with thirteen persons associated with the painter Richard Diebenkorn, including Diebenkorn's wife, his friends, as well as collectors, art historians, and others. The interviews were conducted in conjunction with the 1977 exhibition, "Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943-1976" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Maurice Tuchman interviews, 1976. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Found here are a series of interviews with thirteen persons associated with the painter Richard Diebenkorn, including Diebenkorn's wife, his friends, as well as collectors, art historians, and others. The interviews were conducted in conjunction with the 1977 exhibit, "Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings, 1943-1976" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The interview is on two sound cassettes, but there is a duplicate set of cassettes of the interview.
Tape 1 contains only part of the interview on side 1. Side 2 is blank. The second portion of the interview is on side 2 of the Walter Hopps Interview cassette.
Side 1 is the Walter Hopps interview. Side 2 is the second half of the Paul Harris interview.