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Peter Busa BIOGRAPHY
1914 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 1985. Known for: Abstract landscape painting, Indian totemic.
Excerpts from ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH PETER BUSA, AT PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1965, INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY SECKLER. Permission from "Art Times". DS: This is Dorothy Seckler... Read full biography
Excerpts from ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH PETER BUSA, AT PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1965, INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY SECKLER. Permission from "Art Times". DS: This is Dorothy Seckler interviewing Peter Busa in Provincetown on September 5th, 1965. Peter, I'd like to begin with some... Read full biography
Excerpts from ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH PETER BUSA, AT PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1965, INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY SECKLER. Permission from "Art Times". DS: This is Dorothy Seckler interviewing Peter Busa in Provincetown on September 5th, 1965. Peter, I'd like to begin with some discussion of your early background, when and where you were born and the kind of family background it was and anything in your childhood that may have predisposed you to become an artist. PB: Well, my early... Read full biography
Excerpts from ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH PETER BUSA, AT PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1965, INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY SECKLER. Permission from "Art Times". DS: This is Dorothy Seckler interviewing Peter Busa in Provincetown on September 5th, 1965. Peter, I'd like to begin with some discussion of your early background, when and where you were born and the kind of family background it was and anything in your childhood that may have predisposed you to become an artist. PB: Well, my early background was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I come from a long family of artisans and artists. I think there's been an artist in my family as far back as we can trace. The family is of Sicilian origin. My father was an Italian craftsman who was... Read full biography
Excerpts from ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH PETER BUSA, AT PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1965, INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY SECKLER. Permission from "Art Times". DS: This is Dorothy Seckler interviewing Peter Busa in Provincetown on September 5th, 1965. Peter, I'd like to begin with some discussion of your early background, when and where you were born and the kind of family background it was and anything in your childhood that may have predisposed you to become an artist. PB: Well, my early background was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I come from a long family of artisans and artists. I think there's been an artist in my family as far back as we can trace. The family is of Sicilian origin. My father was an Italian craftsman who was specialist with religious murals, and he did commercial murals for churches. So my early stimulus was by accompanying my father on Saturdays,... Read full biography
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Excerpts from ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH PETER BUSA, AT PROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1965, INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY SECKLER. Permission from "Art Times".
DS: This is Dorothy Seckler interviewing Peter Busa in Provincetown on September 5th, 1965. Peter, I'd like to begin with some discussion of your early background, when and where you were born and the kind of family background it was and anything in your childhood that may have predisposed you to become an artist.
PB: Well, my early background was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I come from a long family of artisans and artists. I think there's been an artist in my family as far back as we can trace. The family is of Sicilian origin. My father was an Italian craftsman ...But wait, there's more...
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