Lillian Scalzo Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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Q: ~hat'a beautiful. So you just periodically change what you put like
in this place.
A: Yes. I have about ten Candides. And I have Caillavets and
and I have about . . .
Q: These are originals, right?
A: Theee are all originals. About twenty-five old Japanese prints.
Q: Oh, great. So how many . . .
A: I have no idea how many I have. I'm one of those collectors that
just collect. (laughter) I'm an awful person. I collect everything.
(laughs) Just everything. Even junk. Even string and rope. I love
rope.
Q: String and rope, you collect?
A: Oh, yea. (laughs) Oh, it comes in handy. 1t's beautiful on pictures.
1t's beautiful in stitchery.
Q: Yes, I can imagine it would be. You have a in tapestry?
A: No, I don't.
Q: I see here you have a scrapbook and there are many articles, newspaper
articles, that have been written about you from about 1938 or 1939. I
see that there is a picture of what's said to be one of your first art
classes, And 1946, here is a painting that, watercolor called "Swan
Lake." You received a prize for this?
A: Yes.
Q: Now who gave the prize?
A: Well, it was the--it was in Decatur, the show was, and we had what we
called the Central Art Association with this kind of like . . .
Q: Oh, provincial kind or district.
A: District kind of Illinois artists.
Q: Let's see. Did you participate in a lot of exhibits and shows an
forth?
A: Not too many. It was too much work,
Q: Oh, really? (laughter)
A: Well, it is. Getting them ready and sending them off and back.
Q: Yes, I can think it would be. Here you are honored by a reception
here at the [Springfield] Art Association and here's about Vachel Lindsay.