Oral history interview with Charles Rand Penney, 1981 Aug. 14-16
Object Details
- interviewee
- Penney, Charles Rand, 1923-2010
- interviewer
- Brown, Robert F
- Subject
- Burchfield, Charles Ephraim
- Ganso, Emil
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- United States
- Physical Description
- 73 Pages, Transcript
- General Note
- Originally recorded on 1 tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 17 min.
- Access Note / Rights
- The transcript and recording are open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.
- Summary
- An interview of Charles Rand Penney conducted 1981 Aug. 14-16, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
- Penney speaks of his childhood in Buffalo, N.Y.; his education at Yale; his early interest in prints, especially Emil Ganso's work; his acquaintance with and patronage of Charles Burchfield; the expansion of his collection during the 1960s; the establishment of an educational foundation; and his patronage of artists in western New York.
- Citation
- Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Charles Rand Penney, 1981 Aug. 14-16. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Additional Forms
- Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
- 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
- Charles R. Penney (1923-2010) was an art collector from Lockport, N.Y.
- 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
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA_CollID)12810
- (DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212107
- AAA_collcode_penneyc81
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- Interviews
- Record ID
- AAADCD_oh_212107
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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