Walker, Hudson D. (Hudson Dean), 1907-1976 Search this
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Sound recordings
Interviews
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Joshua Binion Cahn, Richard A. Florsheim, and John Kearney, 1971 July 20. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Barbara Neville Parker, 1974 January 21. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Museum curators -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Interviews Search this
An interview of Barbara Neville Parker conducted 1974 January 21, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art. She discusses her career path leading to curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; her colleagues, and research she conducted on early American painting, among other topics.
Biographical / Historical:
Barbara Neville Parker (1905-1991) was a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She was from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 57 min.
Provenance:
These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art 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.
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For information on how to access this interview contact Reference Services.
This interview is open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.
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Museum curators -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Interviews Search this
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Margaret Elder Philbrick, 1971 Nov. 2. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Ruth Cobb, 1971 October 26. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Louisa Dresser, 1972 October 19. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
An interview of Louisa Dresser conducted 1972 October 19, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
Biographical / Historical:
Louisa Dresser (1907-1989) was an art administrator and art historian from Worcester, Massachusetts. She was Curator of the Worcester Art Museum and specialized in Early American Painting.
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Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 49 min.
Provenance:
This interview is 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.
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This interview is open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.
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Arts administrators -- Massachusetts -- Worcester Search this
Art historians -- Massachusetts -- Worcester Search this
Museum curators -- Massachusetts -- Worcester Search this
An interview of Ruth Cobb conducted 1971 October 26, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art. Cobb speaks of her childhood and the development of her interest in art; her education; going into advertising art; doing freelance work; her interest in watercolor; her husband, Lawrence Kupferman, and their mural work together; her work in acrylic; her philosophy of art; her influences; and the Boston art scene. She recalls Jack Levine.
Biographical / Historical:
Ruth Cobb (1914-2008) was a painter from Newton Centre, Massachusetts.
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Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 3 min.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art 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.
Restrictions:
This interview is open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.
An interview of Margaret Elder Philbrick conducted 1971 Nov. 2, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art. Philbrick speaks of her childhood, the development of her interest in art, her education at the Massachusetts College of Art, her first involvement with etching, serigraphy and colograph printmaking, her theories and use of color and light, her philosophy of work, and her inspirations.
Biographical / Historical:
Margaret Elder Philbrick (1914-1999) was a printmaker and etcher from Westwood, Massachusetts.
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Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 58 min.
An unrelated interview of Arthur Polonsky (4/12/72) conducted by R. Brown is also on this tape.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art 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.
Restrictions:
This interview is open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Alice Winchester, 1993 September 17-1995 June 29. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Magazine antiques (New York, N.Y. :1928) Search this
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Peter Blume, 1983 August 16-1984 May 23. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with William Thon, 1992 December 15-16. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
An interview of William Thon conducted 1992 December 15-16, by Robert Brown for the Archives of American Art, at the artist's home at Port Clyde, Maine. Thon discusses his childhood and education; early exhibitions; service in the Navy during World War II; being represented by Midtown Galleries from 1943 on; his dealers Alan and Mary Gruskin; moving to Maine; the importance to his art of Europe and his time spent at the American Academy in Rome; his painting technique; and his watercolors.
Biographical / Historical:
William Thon (1906-2000) was a painter from New York, N.Y. and Port Clyde, Maine. Studied at the Art Students League. Served as a trustee and artist in residence at the American Academy in Rome.
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Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 5 min.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art 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 administrators. Funding for this interview provided by John W. Payson.
Restrictions:
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
An interview with Peter Blume conducted 1983 August 16-1984 May 23, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
Blume discusses his training with the Soyer brothers; his precociously early exhibitions with Charles Daniel; Daniel's assistant, Alanson Hartpence; Alfred Stieglitz, Malcolm Cowley, and various figures of the bohemian art crowd of Greenwich Village in the 1920s; increasing compositional complexity and use of intense colors in the late 1920s; his working methods; renown brought by first prize (1934) in Carnegie International for the "South of Scranton"; patronage of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; his Guggenheim fellowship to Italy and germination of "The Eternal City" (1934-7), and its purchase in early 1940s by the Museum of Modern Art; purchases of his work by the Whitney and the Metropolitan museums; World War II army paintings; Post-World War II paintings, in particular, "The Rock" (1948), "Passage to Etna" (1956), "Tasso's Oak" (1960), and a series on the seasons (1964-1983); and his preparatory studies.
Biographical / Historical:
Peter Blume (1906-1992) was a painter from Sherman, Connecticut.
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Originally recorded on 10 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 20 digital wav files. Duration is 14 hr., 24 min.
Provenance:
These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art 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.
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Agnes Mongan, 1979 June 19-Aug. 30. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Maud Cabot Morgan, 1974 Mar. 21-Nov. 18. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Interview of Alice Winchester, conducted by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution at Winchester's home in Danbury, CT, September 17, 1993-June 29, 1995.
Winchester speaks of her childhood in the family of a Congregational minister in New England; attending Smith College (BA 1929) as had her mother and sisters; her junior year abroad in France; her clerical employment in New York City; her position as office secretary and then associate editor of "The Magazine Antiques"; working with Homer Eaton Keyes, its founding editor; learning about antiques; meeting many dealers, curators, and collectors (1930-38); her early years as editor of "The Magazine Antiques"; expanding the scope of the magazine, particularly to include articles on folk art and regular features on outstanding public and private collections; her highly specialized, though small, staff, including Helen Comstock; her close associations with important New York dealers, such as Israel Sack and his sons, Harold and Albert, and members of the Ginsburg and Levy firm; her role in establishing the annual Antiques Forum at Colonial Williamsburg; the importance of steady travel to view collections and meet collectors and curators; her several books on antiques; and the wealthy collectors she met, including Electra Havemeyer Webb, of Shelburne, VT. Winchester also recalls Henry Francis Du Pont, Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Flynt, Marshall and "Petey" Davidson, and Joseph Downs.
Biographical / Historical:
Alice Winchester (1907-1996) was an art editor and author of Danbury, Connecticut. Winchester was editor of the magazine, "Antiques," 1938-1951 and its successor "Antiques," 1951-1972; and curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972-1974.
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Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 46 min.
Provenance:
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art 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 administrators.
Occupation:
Editors -- New York (State) -- New York Search this
Donald Barton, a fifty year wait [videorecording] / produced and directed by Joan Enslow; ass't producer, Rolf Semprebon; narrator, Robert F. Brown; writer, Mark Pomerantz, c1991
Donald Barton, a fifty year wait [videorecording] / produced and directed by Joan Enslow; ass't producer, Rolf Semprebon; narrator, Robert F. Brown; writer, Mark Pomerantz, c1991. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.