Abstract
David Buttram, a Cleveland artist and high school art teacher, recounts his childhood desire to draw cartoons and how art became his strength in school. He enrolled in Cooper School of Art, then CIA, and ultimately earned a Masters at Kent. He discusses how his thirteen-month tour of duty with the Marines in Vietnam influenced his work, his subsequent employment as a machinist, and his return to painting. The interview also focuses on characteristics of his paintings, which are mostly urban scenes, and he talks about how the images he painted twenty years ago are very different from the current images seen in Cleveland. Light, shadow and color are important to his work, he uses photography to capture images and then draws working sketch from photo.
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Interviewee
Buttram, David (interviewee)
Interviewer
Hansgen, Lauren (interviewer)
Project
Cleveland Artists Foundation
Date
12-3-2008
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
33 minutes
Recommended Citation
"David Buttram Interview, 03 December 2008" (2008). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 901026.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/238
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