Oral history interview with Helena Hernmarck 1987
Oral history interview with Helena Hernmarck 1987
- Name
- Hernmarck, Helena, 1941- (Interviewee)
- Polsky, Richard M (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Helena Hernmarck 1987
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Helena Hernmarck : oral history, 1987
- Abstract
- Early childhood in Sweden, move to England in 1955; Swedish State School of Art, Craft, and Design, 1959; move to Montreal; exhibition of work at EXPO '67 and in subsequent tour of the United States; process of pricing and commissioning work; views on commissioned art; impressions of Edna Martin, Philip Johnson, and I.M. Pei.
- Collection Name
- American craftspeople project
- Subjects
- Weavers; Textile crafts; Art commissions; Sweden Description and travel; Hernmarck, Helena, 1941-
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1987
- Note (Biographical)
- Fiber artist.
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit.
- Interviewed by Richard M. Polsky on July 6, 1987.
- Note (Provenance)
- Helena Hernmarck, Gift 1987
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
- Catalog Record
- 7094662
- Also In
- Time-Based Media
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-43rg-fr73
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.
