He studied at Columbia University in New York, obtaining a degree in art history and a master’s in painting. Then, inspired, like so many of his generation, by Harry Smith’s 1952 LP collection Anthology of American Folk Music, he sought out players of old southern banjo styles, such as Buell Kazee and Bascom Lamar Lunsford, and transmitted their music in the instruction book Old-Time Mountain Banjo (1968) and the solo album Five String Banjo (1973).Īrt was born in Ogdensburg, New York, the eldest son of Della (nee Spark) and David Rosenbaum, and grew up in Indianapolis, where his father worked as a physician at the Veterans Administration hospital. While in Indianapolis he also recorded the magnificent old-time fiddler John W Summers. Blackwell led him to other musicians, and in 1961 the folklorist Kenneth Goldstein, in charge of Prestige Records’ Bluesville label, commissioned Art to record five LPs by Indianapolis blues musicians.īlues was only one of Art’s interests. Photograph: Dust-to-Digital RecordsĪ few years later, living in Indianapolis, he came across Scrapper Blackwell, once nationally famous as the guitar-playing partner of the singer and pianist Leroy Carr on bestselling blues records. Art Rosenbaum was an accomplished artist, and professor of fine arts at the University of Georgia at Athens.
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