Gilmore, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Alexander, Peter Warhol, Andy Sera, Richard Powell, Judson Puerefoy, Noel Dickson, Charles Coplans, John Di Suvero, Mark Chicago Academy of Fine Arts Pasadena Art Museum American Academy of the Fine Arts Compton Communicative Arts Academy

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California13 Pages, TranscriptThis transcript is open for research. No audio exists. Contact Reference Services for more information.Interview of John W. Outterbridge conducted 1973 January 3, by Allen Bassing, for the Archives of American Art. Outterbridge speaks of his family background and how that influenced him to lean toward the arts; attending Agriculture & Technical University and majoring in engineering even though he wanted to become an artist; joining the Army in order to get the G.I. Bill so he could afford school; painting during his three-year stint in the service, and how his company commander admired his work and got him a studio; attending the Chicago Academy of Art, then the American Academy of Art after leaving the military; moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an artist full-time; quitting painting and deciding to focus on sculpture; working at the Pasadena Art Museum, and how it disturbed him that there weren't any Black artists being represented in the shows he was installing there; getting involved with the Compton Communicative Arts Academy just as it was starting; and the present situation of the Compton Communicative Arts Academy and where he sees it going. He recalls Andy Warhol, Peter Alexander, Richard Serra, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark di Suvero, John Coplans, Judson Powell, Noel Puerefoy, Charles Dickson, Bobby Gilmore, and many others.Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with John Outterbridge, 1973 January 3. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's...

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