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New York (State)6 Items, Sound recording, master: 6 memory cards (5 hr., 15 min.), secure digital, 1.25 in.; 120 Pages, TranscriptThe transcript and recording are open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.An interview of Joe Overstreet conducted 2010 March 17-18, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art, at Overstreet's home and studio in New York, N.Y. Overstreet speaks of his family and childhood in Mississippi; introduction to art at a young age and moving to New York City, discovering painting; working at Disney and later Disneyland; studies at the California School of Fine Arts; studio on Grant Ave and the art community of San Francisco; shows with Merton Simpson and Spanierman Gallery LLC; invention of Curvism; interest in social issues and the Civil Rights movement; encounters with Billie Holliday and racial tensions; the evolution of Overstreet's process and style; the history of his paintings destroyed on 9/11; Overstreet also recalls Raymond Howell, Roy O. Disney, Al Williams, Diego Rivera, Bob Kaufman, Sargent Johnson, Merton Simpson, Romare Bearden, Frank Stella, Dominique Menils and others.Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Joe Overstreet, 2010 Mar 17-18. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.Funding for this interview was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.Interviewee Joe Overstreet (1933-2019) was an abstract artist in New York, N.Y. Interviewer Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is former Executive director of iCI in New York, N.Y.English .This interview...

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