These videos document Oscar Chelimsky’s work and development as an artist over the years
1950: Vernissage by Carmen D’Avino showing Oscar Chelimsky in his studio in Paris on the Boulevard Montparnasse
March 1982: Interview by Irv Lipman from the National Gallery of Art regarding Oscar Chelimsky’s career and work in Oscar’s studio in Fairfax Virginia.
June 15, 1990: Remarks made at the Hirshhorn Museum on American Artists in Paris. Technical issues with recording first 2 minutes, but the rest is clear. Start at 10:20 to skip portions of the Irv Lippman interview above. Interesting history of the period including Brancusi & Impasse Ronsin, the founding of Galerie 8 and its first president, Hayward Rivers along with 6 first officers that included Oscar Chelimsky and Jules Olitski, and the first show of sculptor Shinkichi Tajiri and painter John Anderson.
June 4, 2002: Very similar remarks made at the Maryland Library, but with better visibility of the slides and materials.
June 11, 1998: Oscar reviews the paintings in St Maurice d’Ibie, the small French village in the Ardeche where he worked every summer from 1953 to 1970. There are beautiful and private insights into how he worked and what he wanted to achieve in his painting.
Oscar Chelimsky Interview with Michael Plante – Archives of American Art August 28, 1990 at his studio in Fairfax VA. In this 3.5 hour interview, Mr Plante covers very interesting and wide array of subjects from Oscar’s perspective of his own art, to his role in the formation of Galerie 8, to the position of the movement of American artists in Paris today. Well worth every minute if these topics are of interest to you.