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 Helen Lundeberg and Lorser Feitelson, Los Angeles, California.
Date: June 4, 1974.
Time of day, length of session, total number of recording hours : The interview was recorded in a single afternoon session of two and a half hours.
Persons present during interview: Lundeberg and Danieli.
This oral history interview and Danieli's oral history interviews with Lorser Feitelson 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 (1950-70) 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 had studied with Lundeberg's husband, Lorser Feitelson, and considered himself a longtime friend of the couple at the time of the interview. No special research or preparation was required for this particular interview session, therefore.
Danieli expected Lundeberg to be reticent about reminiscing, but he reports this did not turn out to be the case.
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 nouns. Words and phrases inserted by the editor have been bracketed.
The interviewee reviewed and approved the edited transcript.
Hunter Drohojowska wrote the introduction. Other front matter and the index were prepared by Oral History Program staff.
A copy of the Danieli grant proposal is filed in the office of the Oral History Program along with other supporting documents of the Los Angeles Art community project.