Object Details
- interviewee
- Wittmann, Otto, 1911-2001
- interviewer
- Howe, Thomas Carr, 1904-1994
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- United States
- Physical Description
- 42 Pages, Transcript
- General Note
- Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 45 min.
- Summary
- An interview of Otto Wittmann conducted 1981 October 25, by Thomas Carr Howe, for the Archives of American Art.
- Citation
- Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Otto Wittmann, 1981 October 25. 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
- Otto Wittman (1911-2001) was a museum director and consultant from Toledo, Ohio.
- Language Note
- English .
- Provenance
- This interview is part of the Archives' 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)12967
- (DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213214
- AAA_collcode_wittma81
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- Art, American
- Museum directors -- Ohio -- Interviews
- Record ID
- AAADCD_oh_213214
