- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (11 video files (5 hr., 19 min., 10 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Visual artist Jack Whitten was born on December 5, 1939 in Bessemer, Alabama. He received his B.F.A. degree from The Cooper Union in 1964. Though Whitten's early work was influenced by Willem de Kooning and Norman Lewis, his style evolved over his five-decade career. He experimented with innovative pigments, painting tools of his own design, and acrylic tesserae mosaics. Whitten was a professor at numerous institutions including Cooper Union and Manhattan Community College. His paintings have been exhibited widely since 1965, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Studio Museum in Harlem, as well as internationally at Art Basel, the 55th Venice Biennale and his 2014 retrospective, Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting. Whitten is a former Guggenheim fellow, the 2015 National Medal of Arts recipient, and a National Academy inductee. He held honorary doctorates from San Francisco Art Institute and Brandeis University.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Jack Whitten
- Jack Whitten
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1003150893
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jack Whitten.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
051910
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Harriette Cole, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2016 October 3.
Recorded New York, New York 2016 October 27.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Painter.
- Added Author
Whitten, Jack, 1939-2018, interviewee.
Cole, Harriette, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.