Transcription of Warrington Colescott Sound Clip

Interview Information

Interview #483: Warrington Colescott (1921- )
Professor of Art
At UW: 1949-94

Interviewed: 1995
Length: 3-1/2 hours
Series: Printmaking
Interviewers: Arthur Hove and Barry Teicher

Transcription

Tape 1/Side 2, 176-202:

My first meeting with [Alfred] Sessler was interesting. Fred [Logan] took me around a little, and took me into the painting room and left me in the hands of Santos Zingale, and then so Santos took me down to a Quonset hut that was on the Library Mall. The Library Mall had about half a dozen Quonsets at that time. They were left over from the military, from the military classes, and the Art Department faculty had a Quonset that was their studio, and they had little cubicles within the Quonset. And we came quietly into the Quonset, and then I realized that someone was sleeping on a stool in front of an easel. The easel had a tiny, little picture on it, and he was sleeping in a very precarious position. He was leaning against his maulstick. A maulstick has a little round ball on one end, and you put it on the easel, and it has a cushion on the other end. It's kind of [a] flexible stick. I'd never seen a maulstick before, except in museums. Anyway, so he was leaning against his maulstick, which was on the easel, and he was sound asleep, snoring a little, so we woke Al up, and that was my first introduction to Sessler. And so I liked Sessler and Zingale a lot. I liked Fred, too. They were warm, friendly people, and they really welcomed me into the Department.

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