From the Vault 290 - Two Painters: Van Gogh and Lichtenstein

This week on From the Vault we delve into the visual arts and present two painters in two very different ways.

Part one of this program features Roy Lichtenstein, known for his ' comic strip' style, interviewed by Jeanne Siegel in late 1967 or early 1968 - quite early in the artist's career.

Part two is a dramatic presentation of the personal correspondence of Vincent Van Gogh adapted from the Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, published by the New York Graphic Society in 1958. Produced by David Rapkin and adapted for the radio by Bonnie Bellow and Terry Shtob with musical direction by James Irsay, this recording is a wonderful example of radio as an artistic medium. Mr. John Lithgow plays Vincent Van Gogh.

From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners.

First broadcast on Friday, December 2, 2011.