Ferdinand Hampson discusses showing national and international artists at Habatat Gallery. Oral history interview with Ferdinand Hampson by Catherine Whalen and Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, January 31, 2020, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:58.

Ferdinand Hampson: Well, it wasn’t so much I was building an audience—in Europe or Australia or elsewhere, except for the United States. But I was exposing the collectors in the United States to artists from all over the world. In 1987 I changed the national to an international, which in some ways was painful because I had to eliminate a number of artists, American artists, to make room because we really didn’t have a very large space to make room for the international. And these are like people that I had become friends with. it was a very difficult decision. But, you know, I realized if I was gonna make things grow, I’d have to do that.