Oral history, 1991 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Rewald discusses his student days in Germany, his growing interest in art, and his first meeting with Alfred H. Barr, Jr. in Paris before World War II. He recounts his journey to the U.S. during the war, and his first employment at The Museum of Modern Art as a proofreader. He discusses subsequent work with Barr on the latter's seminal book, Matisse: His Art and His Public (c. 1951) as well as the publication of his own pioneering books The History of Impressionism (c. 1946) and Post-Impressionism from van