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Interviewee:
Milliken, William Mathewson, 1889-1978  Search this
Interviewer:
Barrie, Dennis  Search this
Names:
Cleveland Museum of Art  Search this
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919  Search this
Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924  Search this
Morgan, J. Pierpont, 1837-1913 (John Pierpont)  Search this
Seligmann, Jacques, 1858-1923  Search this
Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958  Search this
Extent:
106 Pages (Transcript)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Sound recordings
Interviews
Date:
1974 Dec. 27-1976 Mar. 13
Scope and Contents:
An interview of William Milliken conducted 1974 Dec. 27-1976 Mar. 13, by Dennis Barrie, for the Archives of American Art. Milliken speaks of his family background and history; his childhood; his education, and studies at Princeton; his first position as Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum; his involvement with the Frick and the Cooper Union Museum; his appointment to the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1919, and becoming its director in 1930. He recalls William R. Valentiner, Jacques Seligmann, Isabella Stewart Gardner, J.P. Morgan, Henry Frick and others.
Biographical / Historical:
William Milliken (1889-1978) was a museum director from Cleveland, Ohio. He was the director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1930-1958.
General:
Originally recorded on 5 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 10 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hrs., 45 min.
Provenance:
These interviews are part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
Topic:
Art, American  Search this
Museum curators -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews  Search this
Museum directors -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews  Search this
Genre/Form:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Identifier:
AAA.millik74
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw998cdcaf0-9fcc-4ef1-922d-801f35d6a0dd
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-millik74