- Title Information
- Title
- Interview with Richard Cragin
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Fox, Raina
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- interviewer
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Cragin, Richard
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- interviewee
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
- 2013-04-06
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 sound recording + 6 videorecordings + 1 PDF
- Abstract
- Cragin discusses his time as a designer at Gorham, creating specialty items and
flatware, dynamics of the studio, working with women, traveling for work, the process of making
a silver piece. He shows some of his sketches and connects them to his work at Gorham. He also
shows some Gorham silver flatware. Some of Cragin's designs and drawings are scanned and added
to the end of the transcript.
- Note:
venue
- Brown Center for Public Humanities
- Note
- Other person/people mentioned in interview: Norman Rockwell (designed plates based on
his art); Jeffrey Herman, Burr Sebring, Jane (Cragin's partner); David Rogers; Woody ("old
timer"); Lucian (no last name); Judy Lee (RISD grad who worked in studio); Cheryl Green; Barbara
(designed children's themed giftware); Karen; Bob McCutchin; Dave Rogers; Jeff Elsbecker;
Russell Price
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)