Fritz Eichenberg, Quaker artist: an oral history


	Fritz Eichenberg, Quaker artist: an oral history

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1-6-2008 2:41 AM

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art, interview, history, oral_history, social_justice, religion, christianity

enbar says:

Eichenberg is famous for his illustrations of Russian novels and for his friendship and collaboration with Dorothy Day. He died in 1990; this interview was done in 1979 for the Smithsonian.

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1-6-2008 6:00 AM

haraya

I wanted to read this. Thanks, enbar!

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Conducted by Robert Brown
At the artist's home in Peace Dale, Rhode Island
May 14 1979 and December 7, 1979</B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/tranSCRIPTs/eichen79.htm"><P>ROBERT BROWN: What do they see in it now, do you think?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/tranSCRIPTs/eichen79.htm"><P>FRITZ EICHENBERG: They see what I saw in the beginning: the redemption through suffering. 
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