Fidel Danieli , freelance consultant to "L.A. Art Community: Group Portrait," Oral History Program, UCLA. B.A., Art Education, UCLA: M.A., Pictorial Arts, UCLA. Professor of art, Los Angeles Valley Center in Van Nuys , painter, and critic.
Place: Studio/home of Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg, Los Angeles, California.
Dates : March 2, and October 19, 1974.
Time of day, length of sessions, total number of recording hours : The interview was recorded in two long afternoon sessions. A total of six and one half hours of conversation was recorded.
Persons present during interview : Feitelson, Lundeberg, Danieli, and Edie Ellis (Mrs. Fidel) Danieli.
This oral history interview and Danieli 's oral history interviews with Helen Lundeberg and John McLaughlin, all part of the Oral History Program's collection, were actually conducted as part of Danieli 's own independent study project, "The Contemporary Art of Los Angeles (1950-1970) and Its Relationship to the Special Qualities of the Environment of Southern California," funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. (Thirty artists were interviewed as part of that project. )
Danieli's wife had studied with Feitelson, and in 1960 Danieli took classes with the artist at Art Center College. In 1968 he curated a show in Long Beach, "Critic's Choice," which included Feitelson's work.
Lundeberg was present during the interview, assisting her husband with names and dates.
Editing was done by Lawrence Weschler, editor, Oral History Program. He checked the verbatim transcript of the interview against the original tape recordings and edited for punctuation, paragraphing, correct spelling, and verification of proper names. Words and phrases inserted by the editor have been bracketed.
The interviewee checked and approved the edited transcript.
Index, table of contents, and other front matter were prepared by Oral History Program staff.
A copy of the Danieli grant proposal and a catalog of the retrospective exhibition, "Lorser Feitelson," (8/16/72-9/17/72) are filed in the office of the Oral History Program along with other supporting documents of the Los Angeles Art Community project.