[Portland Museum of Art]

DateOctober 29 1969

Can DescriptionsCan labels date as 10/29/1969; reporter at Portland Museum of Art next to sculpture discusses the generation gap; interviews sculptor and his son, who is a painter; painter smokes cigarette as he discusses his work, is also a professor at University of New Hampshire, says the New England environment is a large factor in his work.

Viewing NotesA reporter, standing in a gallery space with a sculpture of a nude torso at the Portland Museum of Art, muses that the definition of the generation gap is when the son does not know what his father does; to dispel that generation gap, the reporter interviews a father and son who are both artists represented in the museum's collection; Robert Laurent, a sculptor, and his son, John Laurent, a painter, are the subjects of the story; the sculptor talks about several of his works and the various media he uses; the painter talks in detail about his subject matter of several of his paintings in the museum's collection; he also talks about the importance of his immediate environment and the time he spends in Maine and New England; the reporter and the painter each thank the other for choosing Maine for residence;

AbstractInterview at the Portland Museum of Art with father and son artists Robert Laurent (sculptor) and John Laurent (painter); each talks about specific pieces held at the museum, about the materials and inspiration for the works; the son talks more generally about his time in New England;