A Conversation with Beatrice Wood
Directed and written by Steven Watson
Director of photography Peter d’Agostino
Edited by Giuliano Ciabatta
Thanks to
The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts
Morex Arai
Garth Clark
Paul Franklin
Anthony Johns
Kevin Wallace
Dana Martin
Sarwar Mushtaq
Paul Kasmin
Robert Watson
Hailey Wojcik
Special thanks to Francis M. Naumann
Selected sources for images:
Francis Naumann M. collection
Paul Kasmin collection
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Schlesinger Library, Radlcliffe College
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas
Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts
“I Shock Myself” by Beatrice Wood
“Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde”
by Steven Watson
“Beatrice Wood: Career Woman”
Music:
Chopin – Mazurka in G Major, KKIIa No. 2
Chopin – Mazurka in A Minor Op. 17: IV
Interview conducted October, 1987
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2019 ©Steven Robert Watson
www.steven-watson.com
Thank you for this!
Yes, thanks so much! What a lovely woman, I was gonna say lady but think she would’ve balked at that label!!!
“to free myself from my mother’s domination” – Wow. That goes for both boys and girls.
Absolutely brilliant. Another testament to why the Hollwysoo leading ladies of the 20s, 30s and 40s were so much more powerful than the sidekicks we have been watching since.