And did you have an early interest in art there?
KASS: I graduated in 1962 from high school.ĭR. And then I went to the senior high school, which was in North Baldwin. It was not quite a mile from the house, something you wouldn't be able to do today, and then I went to a different junior high school that was up near Merrick Road, Grand Avenue, in Baldwin. KASS: Yeah, I went to Steele School for elementary school, which was, we walked there every day. KIRWIN: So did you just go to public school in Long Island?
KASS: Van Den Langenbergh is V-A-N, D-E-N, L-A-N-G-E-N-B-E-R-G-H.ĭR. She shortened it to Juliette Lang when she was a kid because she was like in vaudeville and things. They're separate words, and then her real name is Juliette Marie Antoinette Van Den Langenbergh. Juliette Van Den Langenbergh, and that was her maiden name. And my mother was a full-time mother and then later did some odd jobs as a food demonstrator and things in supermarkets, but when we were little, my brother and I-my brother Warren, who is two years older than I am, we were just at home all the time. And that was in East New York, Atlantic Avenue. KASS: My father owned a commercial truck painting business that had been a wagon painting business started in 1907 by my grandfather, and transitioned into being a commercial vehicle painting business. KASS: I grew up nearby in Baldwin, Long Island, South Baldwin, and that's most of my childhood-my parents had recently moved to Long Island from Brooklyn. KIRWIN: And did you grow up in Long Island? RAY KASS: I was born January 25th, 1944, in Rockville Centre, New York, which is on Long Island, in the community hospital there.ĭR. We tend to begin and the beginning, so could you tell me when and where you were born? I'm interviewing Ray Kass for the Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution at his studio and home in Christiansburg, Virginia, and it's July, 2015. The reader should bear in mind that they are reading a transcript of spoken, rather than written, prose. This transcript has been substantially edited by Ray Kass. Ray Kass and Liza Kirwin have reviewed the transcript. The interview took place in Christiansburg, Va., and was conducted by Liza Kirwin for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The following oral history transcript is the result of a recorded interview with Ray Kass on July 9-10, 2015.
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