Len Crawford interviewed by Barbara Blackman [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 293333
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Crawford, Len, 1920-1996, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1988
- 4 sound cassettes (ca. 354 min.)
- Summary:
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Len Crawford speaks about his adoption and family background; his childhood; religion, spirituality and art; his schooling; his early drawing; his work life; the Great Depression; the Australian Communist Party; the Worker's Theatre Group; attending Sidney Nolan's first exhibition; his involvement with ballet productions; World War II; working in the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories; landscape painting in Hobart while staying with Edith Holmes; Gino Nibbi; taking art classes with Mary Mercer; living with Nancy Roberts; developing his artistic skills; exhibiting at the Rowden White Library in 1948, and at the Kozminsky Gallery in 1950; Melbourne and Sydney art circles; exhibiting with the Contemporary Arts Society in Sydney in 1939; his preference for abstract painting; his desire to compose music and playing the piano; his collection of contemporary music; attending music concerts and ballet; The Contemporary Art Society; exhibiting at the Gallery of Contemporary Art in 1956; teaching art at Junior Technical Colleges; gardening and reading; the painting 'Captive Phoenix'.
Crawford discusses the painting 'Solemn & Harmonic'; designing a cover for Ern Malley's Journal; work held by the National Gallery of Australia; reviews; overseas travel and its influence on painting; living and painting in Highgate in 1963; exhibiting at Heal's Gallery in London; teaching at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; teaching art to troubled children; writing; retirement and purchasing a house; happiness, humour, physical fitness and ambition; his appreciation of work by others; a missing series of Aboriginal-style paintings; works borrowed by an Aboriginal group for their first float in the Moomba Procession; Australian abstract painters; being open and receptive towards art; the effect of future changes to tertiary education on art schools; exhibiting at the Chapman Powell Street Gallery in 1970; portraits of Crawford by other artists; self-portraits; the public appreciation and knowledge of his work.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on July 27, 1988.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-216049296
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (16 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Blackman, Barbara, 1928-, interviewer
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2058 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1988
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