Search Results

Interviewee:

Monroe, Michael W.  Search this

Creator:

Herman, Lloyd E.  Search this

Names:

Bellevue Art Museum (Wash.)  Search this

Smithsonian American Art Museum. Renwick Gallery  Search this

Extent:

8 Items (sound files (3 hr., 59 min.) Audio, digital, wav)

71 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2018 January 22-March 1

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Michael W. Monroe conducted 2018 January 22-March 1, by Lloyd Herman, for the Archives of American Art, at the home of Michael Monroe and at the home of Lloyd Herman, in Seattle, Washington.

Monroe speaks of his childhood in Racine, Wisconsin; his Danish immigrant community and early exposure to Danish design; early experiences of art-making; his art and teaching education at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee; experiences with Midwestern art museums in adolescence and young adulthood; his graduate art education at the Cranbrook Academy of Art; his work as gallery director at SUNY Oneonta in the early 1970s; his approach to evaluating and curating craftwork; his curatorial tenure and close collaboration with Herman at the Renwick Gallery; securing the Renwick's Albert Paley gates; his lifestyle in the Washington, DC area; the American craft movement's shift towards the marketplace, social media, and quick do-it-yourself methods; organizing the "Craft Multiples" traveling exhibition; the beginning of the Renwick's collections policy; organizing "Celebration: A World of Art and Ritual;" organizing the White House Collection of Crafts and its eventual transfer to the Clinton Presidential Library; his continued involvement with the craft world after retirement from the Renwick; his tenure as executive director of the Bellevue Arts Museum; his mentorship of young craft artists; and his sense of the past and future of American crafts. Monroe also recalls Sylvester Jerry, Cherry Barr Jerry, Robert Verizer, Robert Kidd, George Ortman, Julius Schmidt, Richard DeVore, Steve Frykholm, Jon Eric Riis, Arturo Sandoval, Gretchen Bellinger, Bernadette Monroe, Robert Arneson, David Gilhooly, William Harper, Wendell Castle, Françoise Grossen, Claire Zeisler, Sarah Booth Conroy, Sheila Hicks, Dale Chihuly, Arthur Mason, Jane Mason, Betty Ford, Joan Mondale, Rosalynn Carter, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, Paul Gottlieb, Peter Joseph, Matthew Kangas, Mark Haley, Nora Atkinson, and others. Herman recalls Susan Mellon, Joshua Taylor, Paul Gardner, Charles Eldredge, Elizabeth Broun, Paul Smith, Rose Slivka, Diane Douglas, Janet Kardon, William Morris, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Michael W. Monroe (1940- ) is director emeritus of the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, Washington. Lloyd Herman (1936- ) is the founding director (emeritus) of the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C. who resides in Seattle, Washington.

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.

Restrictions:

The transcript and recording are open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Arts administrators -- Washington (State) -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Arts administrators -- Washington (D.C.) -- Interviews  Search this

Arts -- Management  Search this

Curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Curators -- Washington (D.C.) -- Interviews  Search this

Curators -- Washington (State) -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Identifier:

AAA.monroe18

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-monroe18

Interviewee:

Diamond, Hester  Search this

Interviewer:

Richards, Judith Olch  Search this

Names:

Art Collectors: A Project in Partnership with the Center for the History of Collecting in America at The Frick Collection  Search this

Extent:

87 Pages (Transcript)

2 Items (sound files (3 hr., 14 min.) Audio, digital, wav)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2017 October 4-5

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Hester Diamond conducted 2017 October 4-5, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art and the Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection, at Diamond's home in New York, New York.

Ms. Diamond discusses the lives of her parents and grandparents in New Jersey as European immigrants; her life as a student during World War II attending Hunter College in Manhattan, and her exploration of the city's art museums, especially the Museum of Modern Art; her early interest in modern art and her friendship and subsequent marriage with Harold Diamond; her work as a social worker and Mr. Diamond's work as a school teacher, and their growing interest in the New York museum and gallery scene; their time working part-time for Martha Jackson at her gallery; their organization of a traveling exhibition in the United States for the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth; their first trip together to Europe in 1955 and their subsequent introduction to the business of art dealing; Mr. Diamond's illness and death and Ms. Diamond's transition out of the art dealing business. Ms. Diamond also describes her first work as an interior designer for J. Seward Johnson; her subsequent decision to leave the decorating business; her second husband Ralph Kaminsky and his daughter Rachel Kaminsky; the shift of her art collecting focus towards Renaissance paintings; her help founding the Medici Archive Project; her relationships with fellow collectors and curators; her new interest in Spanish sculpture; and her third husband, Dr. David Wilson. Ms. Diamond also recalls Ben Nicholson; Nan Roberts; E. L. Hodgkins; G. David Thompson; Joseph Hirshhorn; Alastair Stair; Eugene Thaw; Shepard and Birgitta Schreiber; as well as Dr. Jacques Koerfer; Thomas Ammann; Edward Goldberg; Robert Strassler; Maryan Ainsworth; Jon Landau; and Rose Fried, among others.

Biographical / Historical:

Hester Diamond (1928-2020) was an art collector in New York, New York. Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is former executive director of iCI in New York, New York.

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.

Restrictions:

This transcript is open for research. Access to the entire recording is restricted. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by Barbara Fleischman.

Identifier:

AAA.diamon17

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-diamon17

Interviewee:

Rathbone, Perry Townsend, 1911-2000  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul, 1933-1997  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12091

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213022

AAA_collcode_rathbo75

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_213022

Interviewee:

Crockwell, Douglass, 1904-1968  Search this

Interviewer:

Trovato, Joseph S., 1912-1983  Search this

Subject:

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Illustrators -- New York (State) -- Interviews  Search this

Museum directors -- New York (State) -- Interviews  Search this

Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12070

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213382

AAA_collcode_crockw65

Theme:

New Deal

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_213382

Interviewee:

Houghton, Arthur Amory, Jr., 1906-1990  Search this

Interviewer:

Backlin-Landman, Hedy  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12154

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214151

AAA_collcode_hought63

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_214151

Creator:

Kraushaar Galleries  Search this

Subject:

Wilson, Ralph L.  Search this

Fausett, Dean  Search this

Lasker, Joe  Search this

Murdock, Roland P.  Search this

Phillips, Duncan  Search this

Kuhn, Walt  Search this

Smith, Vernon  Search this

Robinson, Boardman  Search this

Lechay, James  Search this

Laurent, Robert  Search this

Hartell, John  Search this

Cantene, David  Search this

Schnakenberg, H. E. (Henry Ernest)  Search this

Kraushaar, Antoinette M.  Search this

Harrison, Preston  Search this

Heliker, John  Search this

Williams, Esther  Search this

Luks, George Benjamin  Search this

Glackens, Edith  Search this

Navas, Elizabeth S.  Search this

DeLonga, Leonard  Search this

Evett, Kenneth Warnock  Search this

Halberstadt, Ernst  Search this

Prendergast, Maurice Brazil  Search this

Morris, Carl  Search this

Ruellan, Andrée  Search this

Smalley, David  Search this

Flannery, Vaughn  Search this

Cowles, Russell  Search this

Penney, James  Search this

Beal, Gifford  Search this

Bacon, Peggy  Search this

Beal, Reynolds  Search this

Hardy, Thomas  Search this

Glackens, William J.  Search this

Prendergast, Charles  Search this

Demuth, Charles  Search this

Albrizio, Humbert  Search this

Lachaise, Gaston  Search this

Bignou, Etienne  Search this

Kirsch, Frederick D. (Frederick Dwight)  Search this

Sloan, John  Search this

Allard, J.  Search this

Bouché, Louis  Search this

Juley, Peter A.  Search this

Stanley, Alix W.  Search this

Arnest, Bernard  Search this

Brueming, Karen  Search this

Miller, Harriette  Search this

Kraushaar, John F.  Search this

Guillaume, Paul  Search this

Art Institute of Chicago  Search this

Toledo Museum of Art  Search this

Cleveland Museum of Art  Search this

Wichita Art Museum  Search this

Whitney Museum of American Art  Search this

New Britain Institute  Search this

Ernest Brown and Co.  Search this

Carnegie Institute  Search this

University of Nebraska--Lincoln  Search this

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Sketches

Drawings

Exhibition catalogs

Financial records

Notes

Sketchbooks

Topic:

Works of art  Search this

Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Artists -- United States  Search this

Depressions -- 1929  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7781

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209946

AAA_collcode_kraugall

Theme:

The Art Market

Art Gallery Records

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209946

Interviewee:

Schorer, Clifford, 1966-  Search this

Interviewer:

Richards, Judith Olch  Search this

Names:

Art Collectors: A Project in Partnership with the Center for the History of Collecting in America at The Frick Collection  Search this

Extent:

5 Items (sound files (3 hr., 57 min.) Audio, digital, wav)

110 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2018, June 6-7

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Clifford Schorer conducted 2018 June 6-7, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art and the Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection, at the offices of the Archives of American Art in New York, New York.

Schorer discusses growing up in Massachusetts and Long Island, New York; his family and his Dutch and German heritage, and his grandparents' collecting endeavors, especially in the field of philately; his reluctance to complete a formal high school education and his subsequent enrollment in the University Professors Program at Boston University; his work as a self-taught computer programmer beginning at the age of 16; his first businesses as an entrepreneur; the beginnings of his collection of Chinese export and Imperial ceramics and his self-study in the field; his experiences at a young age at art auctions in the New England area; his travels to Montreal and Europe, especially to Eastern Europe, Paris, and London, and his interest in world history; his decision to exit the world of collecting Chinese porcelain and his subsequent interest in Old Master paintings, especially Italian Baroque. Schorer also describes his discovery of the Worcester Art Museum and his subsequent work there on the Museum's board and as president; his interest in paleontology and his current house by Walter Gropius in Provincetown, MA; his involvement with the purchase and support of Agnew's Gallery based in London, UK, and his work with its director, Anthony Crichton-Stuart; his thoughts on marketing at art shows and adapting Agnew's to the changing market for the collecting of Old Masters; the differences between galleries and auction houses in the art market today; and his expectations for his collection in the future. Schorer also recalls Anna Cunningham; George Abrams; Sydney Lewis; Chris Apostle; Nancy Ward Neilson; Jim Welu, as well as Rita Albertson; Tanya Paul; Maryan Ainsworth; Thomas Leysen; Johnny Van Haeften; Otto Naumann; and Konrad Bernheimer, among others.

Biographical / Historical:

Clifford Schorer (1966- ) is an art collector in Boston, Massachusetts and London, England. Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is former executive director of iCI in New York, New York.

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.

Restrictions:

The transcript and recording are open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by Barbara Fleischman.

Identifier:

AAA.schore18

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-schore18

Interviewee:

Moore, Gertrude Herdle, 1896-1993  Search this

Herdle, Isabel  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F.  Search this

Names:

University of Rochester. Memorial Art Gallery  Search this

Herdle, George, 1868-1922  Search this

Extent:

55 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

1979 July 27

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Gertrude Herdle Moore and Isabel Herdle conducted 1979 July 27, by Robert F. Brown.

Moore and Herdle discuss the development of the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, N.Y. under their father, George Herdle; creation of the first national ceramic exhibition; ethnic art exhibitions in the 1920s; nurturing a balanced acquisition program; and the significance of arts and crafts from the Finger Lakes region of New York state.

Biographical / Historical:

Gertrude Herdle Moore (1896-1993) and Isabel Herdle are daughters of George Herdle (1868-1922), first director of the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, N.Y., 1913-1922.

General:

Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 53 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.

Occupation:

Museum directors -- New York (State) -- Rochester  Search this

Topic:

Ceramics -- Exhibitions  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Function:

Art museums -- New York (State) -- Rochester

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.moore79

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-moore79

Interviewee:

Carbone, Teresa A.  Search this

Interviewer:

Gillespie, Benjamin, 1988-  Search this

Names:

Pandemic Oral History Project  Search this

Extent:

1 Item ((22 min.), digital, mp4)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Interviews

Video recordings

Date:

2020 September 9

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Teresa Carbone conducted 2020 September 9, by Benjamin Gillespie, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project, at Carbone's home in Germantown, New York.­

Biographical / Historical:

Teresa Carbone is a curator, art historian, and arts administrator in Germantown, New York. Carbone was curator of American art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York and is program administrator of American art for the Henry Luce Foundation, New York, New York.

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.

Restrictions:

This interview is open for research.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its Oral History Program interviews available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. Quotation, reproduction and publication of the audio is governed by restrictions. If an interview has been transcribed, researchers must quote from the transcript. If an interview has not been transcribed, researchers must quote from the audio recording. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Pandemics  Search this

COVID-19 (Disease)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Video recordings

Identifier:

AAA.carbon20

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-carbon20

Interviewee:

Bloom, Barbara, 1951-  Search this

Interviewer:

McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-  Search this

Names:

Bennington College -- Students  Search this

Biennale di Venezia  Search this

California Institute of the Arts -- Students  Search this

Baldessari, John, 1931-  Search this

Berger, John  Search this

Brock, Paul  Search this

Broodthaers, Marcel  Search this

Byars, James Lee  Search this

Castelli, Leo  Search this

Cotton, Paul, 1939-  Search this

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968  Search this

Fischl, Eric, 1948-  Search this

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983  Search this

Gorney, Jay, 1896-1990  Search this

Gould, Claudia, (Art museum curator)  Search this

Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998  Search this

Irwin, Robert, 1928-  Search this

Kappe, Ray, 1927-  Search this

Kienholz, Edward, 1927-  Search this

Knowles, Alison, 1933-  Search this

Mullican, Matt, 1951-  Search this

Mulvey, Laura  Search this

Orr, Eric, 1939-1998  Search this

Paik, Nam June, 1932-  Search this

Palestine, Charlemagne  Search this

Paz, Octavio, 1914-  Search this

Ruppersberg, Allen, 1944-  Search this

Ruscha, Edward  Search this

Salle, David, 1952-  Search this

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004  Search this

Tcherepnin, Serge  Search this

Tillim, Sidney, 1925-  Search this

Trockel, Rosemarie, 1952-  Search this

Wheeler, Doug, 1939-  Search this

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900  Search this

Young, La Monte  Search this

Extent:

9 Items (Sound recording: 9 sound files (6 hr., 12 min.), digital, wav)

132 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

Europe -- description and travel

Germany -- description and travel

Germany (East) -- Description and Travel

Holland -- Description and Travel

Netherlands -- description and travel

Date:

2012 October 18-2013 January 31

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Barbara Bloom conducted 2012 October-2013 January 31, by James McElhinney, for the Archives of American Art, at Bloom's home and studio, in New York, New York.

Bloom speaks of growing up in Brentwood, California; her first experience with art; her childhood and exposure to creativity; the influence of art and philosophy; going to museums as a kid; living in Monte Factor and then Los Angeles; her creative process, influences, and life as an artist; art mentors and art lessons with Cathy Herman; traveling with her family; her mom being an actress; attending Bennington College in Vermont, the 1960s, the and collage aesthetic; attending CalArt; the changes in art education at the university level; drugs use; Fluxus; John Cage and attending 4'33; living in Europe and specifically Netherlands, Germany, and Holland; books and love of reading; her daughter; the post-studio era; film and meta-movies; making "The Diamond Lane;" images and objects' connection to meanings; The Gaze; undressing the wall; Homage to Jean Seberg, Godard, Berlin; East Germany; being agnostic and Jewish; Venice Biennale; collectors; cycle of shows; MFA programs; The Tip of the Iceberg; surgeries; hospital visit, personal training, and recovery; The Seven Deadly Sins; her father; Tellus Magazine; Judaism; fabrications and drawings; archives; relationship between the artist and the viewer; her husband; 010011.net; recent show; and As It Were, So To Speak. Bloom also recalls Monte and Betty Factor, Ed Kienholz, Ron Kappe, Robbie Robe, Ray Kappe, Matt Mullican, Eric Orr, Robert Irwin, Doug Wheeler, Total: digital recordings; Claire Steinman, Rosemarie Trockel, Ash Grove, James Lee Byars, Frances Rey, Sidney Tillim, Norman O. Brown, Paul Cotton, Paul Brock, Buckminster Fuller, John Baldessari, Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Serge Tcherepnin, Simone Forte, Charlemagne Palestine, La Monte Young, David Salle, Eric Fischl, Marcel Broodthaers, Susan Sontag, Tim Maul, Caroline Tisdale, Marcel Duchamp, Laura Mulvey, John Berger, Oscar Wilde, Ed Ruscha, Isabella Kacprzak, Octavio Paz, Leo Castelli, Allen Ruppersberg, Jay Gorney, Claudia Gould, Susan Bronstein, Donald Judd, Robert DuGrenier, Pistoletto, Anthony Coleman, Mel Bochner, and Ken Saylor.

Biographical / Historical:

Barbara Bloom (1951- ) is a photographer, designer, and installation artist in New York, New York. James McElhinney (1952- ) is an artist and professor in New York, New York.

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.

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Designers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Fluxus (Group of artists)  Search this

Judaism  Search this

Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Women artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Identifier:

AAA.bloom12

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-bloom12

Interviewee:

Sims, Lowery Stokes  Search this

Interviewer:

Richards, Judith Olch  Search this

Creator:

Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project  Search this

Names:

Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project  Search this

Extent:

110 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2010 July 15-22

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Lowery Stokes Sims conducted 2010 July 15 and 22, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art's Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts project, at Sims' home, in New York, N.Y.

Sims speaks of her family background; traveling to the south as a child; growing up in the Bronx and Queens, New York and being raised Catholic; the careers of her family members; her favorite subjects in elementary school; attending Queens College where she discovered art history; getting a sense of race and gender politics while earning her B.A. at Queens College; her participation in the "SEEK Program" which opened her up to African art and Black literature; her work at the Brooklyn Museum with Joy Sales teaching children about African art; the importance of her legacy and mentoring and working with other female African American art historians like Thelma Golden, Kellie Jones, and Leslie King-Hammond; her two-month trip to Europe following undergraduate school where she visited London, Greece, Turkey, Rome, and Amsterdam; her studies in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins University where she met David Boxer; completing her thesis on Africa architecture and her decision to leave the program upon receiving her Master's degree; the beginning of her career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as an assistant museum educator and her work with Irvine MacManus and William Miller; her decision to become a curator at the Met; her interactions with Henry Geldzahler, Philippe de Montebello, and the Menil family; the racism and sexism she encountered in her experiences at the Met; her work on an American realist exhibition; conflicts between department heads at the Met; her work on the "Ellsworth Kelly: Recent Paintings and Sculptures" exhibition in 1979; Her work on a Robert Beverly Hale show; her difficulties in working on the 1979 Clyfford Still exhibition; attending Columbia University and teaching at Queens College; her decision to get her Ph.D. at the City University of New York, beginning in 1981 where she studied under Robert Pincus-Witten; her interest in Wifredo Lam beginning in 1982 and her introduction to his widow, Lou Laurin-Lam; her dissertation on Lam and her stay with Lou Laurin-Lam in the Bastille area of Paris in the spring of 1993; the completion of her Ph.D. in 1995; and the submission of her dissertation to the University of Texas Press and its publication in 2002. Sims also recalls her promotion to the position of associate curator at the Met in 1980 and her work to include more women and artists of color within the museum's collection; her work on a John Marin exhibition and "The '80s: A New Generation" exhibition of 1988; her collaboration with the American Federation of the Arts on a series of exhibitions in the 1980s; her work on Kaylynn Sullivan and Hannah Wilke for the "Art & Ideology," show in 1984; co-curating the show "Art as a Verb: The Evolving Continuum: Installations, Performances, and Videos by 13 African-American Artists" with Leslie King-Hammond at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1988-89; her first major exhibition, "Stuart Davis: American Painter," in 1991 and her collaboration with William Agee and William Lieberman; her work on the "Richard Pousette-Dart, 1916-1992" show in 1997-98; and the "On the Roof" exhibitions at the Met and "Abakanowicz on the Roof" in 1999. Sims also discusses her decision to leave the Met and take a position as the executive director of the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2000; hiring Thelma Golden; the technological and financial progress made during her tenure; The Studio Museum's Artist-in Residence program; her work with the New York City Cultural Institutions Group; her work on the exhibitions "The Challenge of the Modern: African-American Artists 1925-1945" in 2003 and "Frederick J. Brown: Portraits in Jazz, Blues, and Other Icons" in 2002; her position as president of the Studio Museum; her part-time teaching work; the exhibitions "Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary" in 2008-09, "Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey" in 2010; "Dead or Alive" in 2010, and the "The Global Africa Project" from 2010-11; her work for the ArtTable organization; the changes she's seen in the art world since the beginning of her career; and her plans for future projects including a monograph on Robert Colescott.

Biographical / Historical:

Lowery Stokes Sims (1949- ) is a curator, art historian and art administator in New York, N.Y. Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is former director of iCI in New York, N.Y.

General:

Originally recorded on 3 memory cards as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hr., 40 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.

Restrictions:

This transcript is open for research. Access to the entire recording is restricted. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

African American art museum curators  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

This interview is part of the Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project, funded by the A G Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.sims10

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-sims10

Interviewee:

Helman, Joseph A., 1937-  Search this

Interviewer:

McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-  Search this

Creator:

Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation  Search this

Names:

Blum Helman Gallery  Search this

City Art Museum of St. Louis  Search this

Sotheby's (Firm)  Search this

Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation  Search this

Albers, Josef  Search this

Blum, Irving, 1930-  Search this

Castelli, Leo  Search this

Crawford, Ralston, 1906-1978  Search this

Davis, Ronald, 1937-  Search this

Greenberg, Ronald K.  Search this

Johns, Jasper, 1930-  Search this

Kaprow, Allan  Search this

Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923-  Search this

Lichtenstein, Roy, 1923-1997  Search this

Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-  Search this

Pulitzer, Emily Rauh  Search this

Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008  Search this

Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961  Search this

Scull, Robert C.  Search this

Serra, Richard, 1938-  Search this

Stella, Frank  Search this

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987  Search this

Extent:

4 Items (Sound recording: 4 wav files (2 hr.,19 min.), digital)

53 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

Italy -- description and travel

Date:

2010 January 4

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Joseph A. Helman conducted 2010 January 4, by James McElhinney, for the Archives of American Art, at Helman's home in New York, New York.

Helman recalls three major events from his early life--the exhibition "Masterpieces from the Berlin Museums: 1948-1949," the film "Lust for Life," and collecting--that led to his career as an art dealer; buying his first painting, which was a Jasper Johns work; meeting the art dealer Leo Castelli; opening his first gallery in St. Louis in 1969; selling his gallery to Ronald Greenberg and moving to Italy with his family; attending the Sotheby's auction of the Robert C. Scull Collection in 1973; teaming up with Irving Blum to open the Blum Helman Gallery in New York City; organizing exhibitions of established and emerging artists. Helman speaks about his relationship with Emily Rauh Pulitzer and the St. Louis Art Museum; his Happening with Allan Kaprow; the story behind Claes Oldenburg's drawing Tongue Cloud, over St. Louis, 1975; discovering the work of Ralston Crawford; introducing American art to Spain. In addition, Helman discusses the contemporary art market; collectors and the process of collecting; and the redefinition of Pop art to include British and American artists of the 1980s. Throughout the interview Helman mentions the various artists he has represented, exhibited or collected such as Richard Serra, Robert Rauschenberg, Josef Albers, Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Ronald Davis, and Bryan Hunt.

Biographical / Historical:

Joseph A. Helman (1937- ) is an art dealer and collector in New York, New York.

General:

Originally recorded on 1 sound disc. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr.,19 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.

Topic:

Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Art -- Economic aspects  Search this

Art, American -- Spain  Search this

Pop art  Search this

Happenings (Art)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation.

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.helman10

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-helman10

Interviewee:

Anderson, Dale, 1944-  Search this

Anderson, Doug, 1943-  Search this

Interviewer:

Oldknow, Tina  Search this

Extent:

148 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2005 July 21-22

Scope and Contents:

An interview of wife and husband Dale and Doug Anderson conducted 2005 July 21-22, by Tina Oldknow, for the Archives of American Art, in their home.

The Andersons discuss their respective childhoods and growing up in Manhattan; their education and early experiences with art; their early collection of Native American art; their first art purchases, including a Richard Marquis Patchwork teapot, a Lowell Nesbitt painting, and a Carolyn Brady painting; their initial involvement with the American Craft Museum's Collector's Circle, as well as other craft organizations including Creative Glass Center of America, Millville, New Jersey, The Metropolitan Glass Group, Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, and the Friends of Contemporary Ceramics, among others; their involvement with, and support of, various museums, including the Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, the Seattle Art Museum, the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, and the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; their involvement with, and support of, various art schools, including the Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington, the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine; their independent commissioning of works by various artists, including Dale Chihuly, Ginny Ruffner, Sandy Skoglund, Tom Patti, Paul Marioni and Ann Troutner, and Silas Kopf; their involvement in various large-scale glass exhibitions and expositions, including the annual Sculptural Objects and Functional Art expositions, "Glass Today by American Studio Artists," August 13, 1997-January 11, 1998, at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and palmbeach3, West Palm Beach, Florida, among others; their participation in, and support of, the publishing of various books on glass, including Martha Drexler Lynn's "Sculpture, Glass, and American Museums," Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, and Tina Oldknow's "Pilchuck: A Glass School", Seattle: Pilchuck Glass School, in association with the University of Washington Press, 1996; their dealings with various galleries across the country, including Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, Michigan, Heller Gallery, New York, New York, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, New York, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, New York, browngrotta arts, Wilton, Connecticut, and Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts, among others.

The Andersons recall Christina Orr-Cahall, George and Dorothy Saxe, Ronald and Anita Wornick, Susan Steinhauser and Dan Greenberg, Jack and Rebecca Benaroya, Weston Naef, Daphne Farago, Dale Chihuly, Thomas and Marilyn Patti, Catherine Chalmers, Jeremy Flick, Zhuan Huang, William Warmus, Akio Takamori, Linda Schlenger, Bruce Pepich and Lisa Englander, Pike Powers, Parks Anderson, Sonny and Gloria Kamm, Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick, Davira Taragin, Bill Morris, Sam and Eleanor Rosenfeld, Daganeet Schokauer, Albert Paley, John McQueen, Jeff Mermelstein, Jane Adlin, Henrietta Brunner, Mark Lyman, Charles and Andrea Bronfman, Norman and Elizabeth Sandler, Ferdinand Hampson, Dafna Kaffeman, Paul Stankard, Toots Zynsky, Marjorie Levy, Gregory Grenon, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Dale (1944- ) and Doug (1943- ) Anderson are glass collectors from New York, New York Tina Oldknow is a curator at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York.

General:

Originally recorded on 7 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 19 digital wav files. Duration is 7 hrs., 6 minutes.

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:

Glass artists  Search this

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Art patronage  Search this

Glass art  Search this

Art -- Societies, etc.  Search this

Function:

Art Schools

Art galleries, Commercial

Art museums

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.anders05

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-anders05

Interviewee:

Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003  Search this

Interviewer:

Berman, Avis  Search this

Creator:

Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project  Search this

Names:

Mark Rothko and His Times Oral History Project  Search this

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981  Search this

Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960  Search this

De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997  Search this

Motherwell, Robert  Search this

Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970  Search this

Panicali, Carla  Search this

Putzel, Howard, 1898-1945  Search this

Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970  Search this

Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980  Search this

Extent:

30 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1981 May 14

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Dorothy Canning Miller conducted 1981 May 14, by Avis Berman, for the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and His Times oral history project.

Miller talks about the first time she, with Alfred Barr, saw Mark Rothko's work in Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors exhibitions. She remembers her first visit to Rothko's studio and frequent conversations at an Italian restaurant near the studio. Miller recounts incidents involving Rothko and Clyfford Still while she was organizing the show "15 Americans" and others at the Museum of Modern Art. She recalls the relationship between Rothko and Still, their split, her own split with Still, and the psychological changes she noted in Rothko. She recalls Holger Cahill, Alfred Barr, Barnett Newma, Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still, Howard Putzel, Carla Panicali, de Kooning, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Dorothy Miller (1904-2003) was an art museum curator and art consultant from New York, N.Y.

General:

Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 24 min.

Provenance:

This interview was conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's Mark Rothko and his Times oral history project, with funding provided by the Mark Rothko Foundation.

Others interviewed on the project (by various interviewers) include: Sonia Allen, Sally Avery, Ben-Zion, Bernard Braddon, Ernest Briggs, Rhys Caparn, Elaine de Kooning, Herbert Ferber, Esther Gottlieb, Juliette Hays, Sidney Janis, Buffie Johnson, Jacob Kainen, Louis Kaufman, Jack Kufeld, Katharine Kuh, Stanley Kunitz, Joseph Liss, Betty Parsons, Wallace Putnam, Rebecca Reis, Maurice Roth, Sidney Schectman, Aaron Siskind, Joseph Solman, Hedda Sterne, Jack Tworkov, Esteban Vicente and Ed Weinstein. Each has been cataloged separately.

Restrictions:

Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.

Topic:

Abstract expressionism  Search this

Art museum curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for the interview was provided by the Mark Rothko Foundation.

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.miller81

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-miller81

Interviewee:

Rubenstein, Lewis W. (Lewis William), 1908-2003  Search this

Creator:

Rubenstein, Erica Beckh, 1914-2014  Search this

Interviewer:

Polcari, Stephen  Search this

Names:

Vassar College. Art Gallery -- Faculty -- Interviews  Search this

Lebrun, Rico, 1900-1964  Search this

Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949  Search this

Rubenstein, Erica Beckh, 1914-2014  Search this

Extent:

2 Items (sound cassettes (1 hr. 45 min.), analog.)

50 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1993 February 23

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Lewis and Erica Rubenstein conducted 1993 February 23, by Stephen Polcari, for the Archives of American Art.

Lewis Rubenstein discusses his early career as a fresco painter, including his training in Italy and friendship with Rico Lebrun. He talks specifically about commissioned murals at the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and assisting Jose Clemente Orozco on "portable murals" for the Museum of Modern Art. He talks of his move away from realism and the themes that interested him in the 1950s and 1960s. He remembers spending summers in Provincetown and taking classes with Hans Hofmann, his work teaching studio art at Vassar College, and briefly about the visiting artists program he ran there. Erica Rubenstein talks about the significance of 1930s mural paintings, the WPA movement, and government support of the arts in general.

Biographical / Historical:

Lewis W. Rubentstein (1908-2003) was a painter, printmaker, and teacher and teacher at Vassar College. He lived in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Erica Beckh Rubenstein (1914-2014) was an art historian, whose Ph.D. thesis at Harvard, "Taxpayers Murals," related to New Deal murals.

General:

Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 56 min.

Side B of Tape 1 is blank.

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.

Restrictions:

This transcript is open for research. Access to the entire audio recording is restricted. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Art historians -- New York (State) -- Poughkeepsie -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Mural painting and decoration, American  Search this

Art and state  Search this

Painters -- New York (State) -- Poughkeepsie -- Interviews  Search this

Educators -- New York (State) -- Poughkeepsie -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.rubens93

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-rubens93

Creator:

Houghton, Arthur Amory, Jr., 1906-1990  Search this

Interviewer:

Backlin-Landman, Hedy  Search this

Wunder, Richard P.  Search this

Extent:

4 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Date:

1963 July 9

Scope and Contents:

Interview of Arthur A. Houghton conducted by Hedy Backlin and Richard P. Wunder for the Archives of American Art.

Biographical / Historical:

Arthur Amory Houghton (1906-1990) was an art administrator in New York, New York. Associated with the Cooper Union Art Museum.

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.

Restrictions:

Use requires an appointment.

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.hought63

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-hought63

Creator:

Porter, Allen, 1902-1987  Search this

Interviewer:

Coleman, Butler  Search this

Names:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981  Search this

Berman, Eugene, 1899-1972  Search this

Levy, Julien  Search this

Extent:

20 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1967 May 24

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Allen Porter conducted 1967 May 24, by Butler Coleman, for the Archives of American Art. Porter speaks of his youth and educational background; his interest in photography; collectors; joining the Museum of Modern Art in 1937; films at the Museum; making films for the Army during World War II; art critics; art dealing. He recalls Alfred H. Barr, Julien Levy and Eugene Berman.

Biographical / Historical:

Allan Porter (1902-1987) was a curator at Museum of Modern Art.

General:

Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 13 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.

Topic:

Filmmakers -- Interviews  Search this

Museum curators -- Interviews  Search this

Function:

Art museums -- New York (State) -- New York

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.porter67

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-porter67

Interviewee:

Rathbone, Perry Townsend, 1911-2000  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul  Search this

Extent:

11 Items (sound tape reels, 3 3/4 ips.)

277 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1975 Aug. 8-1976 Sept. 24

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Perry Townsend Rathbone conducted 1975 Aug. 8-1976 Sept. 24, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.

Perry speaks of his childhood in New York City and upstate New York; his parents; his education at Harvard University; his experience taking a museum course with Paul Sachs at Harvard; working in the education department and under William Valentiner at the Detroit Institute of the Arts during the Depression; assisting Valentiner in organizing the 1939 World's Fair art exhibitions; directing the St. Louis Museum of Art; funding strategies and practices for art museums; working for the Combat Artists' Program in the military during World War II; leaving St. Louis to direct the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; initiating museum membership programs and women's committees in St. Louis and Boston; leading the American Association of Museum Directors; traveling to Washington, DC to advocate for art museums during the 1969 income tax reform committee sessions; retiring early from the Boston Museum; assuming the directorship of Christie's in New York; notable acquisitions throughout his career; relationships with museum donors and boards of trustees; and exhibitions including Westward the Way, Mississippi Panorama, Sport in Art, European Masters of the 20th century, Art of Ancient Peru, Gold of Ancient Americas, and Masterpieces of Primitive Art. Perry also recalls Donald Oenslager, Bud Reed, John Mason Brown, Arthur Pope, Paul Sachs, Edward Forbes, William Valentiner, John Newberry, Louis LaBeaume, Lionberger Davis, Meyric Rogers, Curt Valentin, Max Beckmann, Henry McIlhenny, Joseph Pulitzer, Charles Norgle, Lansing Thoms, Etta Steinberg, Richard Weil, Gertrude Townsend, John W. Coolidge, Harold Edgell, W.G. Constable, Henry Rossiter, Gertrude Townsend, Carl Zahn, Hanns Swarzenski, Dows Dunham, Richard McLanathan, Walter Whitehill, Tenley Albright, Maxim Karolik, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Walter Chrysler, George Seybolt, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Perry Townsend Rathbone (1911-2000) was a museum director from New York, N.Y. He was a curator at the Detroit Institute of Art, 1936-1940, director of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1940-1955, and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1955-1972. At the time of the interview, Rathbone was director of the auction house, Christie's USA (1973-1977). He went on to become senior vice-president from 1977-1987, and a consultant beginning in 1987.

General:

Originally recorded on 11 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 20 digital wav files. Duration is 16 hr., 43 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.

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital reformatting of this interview in 2007 was provided by the Rathbone Family.

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.rathbo75

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-rathbo75

Interviewee:

Grier, Harry D. M., 1914-1972  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul  Search this

Names:

Frick Collection  Search this

Extent:

2 Sound tape reels (Sound recording (4 hours 30 min.), 7 in.)

70 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound tape reels

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1970 Apr. 21-June 11

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Harry Dobson Miller Grier conducted 1970 Apr. 21-June 11, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.

Grier discusses his study of architecture at Princeton University, teachers and events that influenced him, and the Carnegie Fellowship programs designed to help American students study abroad. He recalls his work with the military during World War II recovering works of art, and speaks of museum operations especially concerning new acquisitions. He talks specifically of his activities as director of the Frick Collection.

Biographical / Historical:

Harry Dobson Miller Grier (1914-1972) was a museum director from New York, N.Y. Director of the Frick Collection, from 1964 until his death in 1972.

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

Art treasures in war  Search this

Museum directors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

Function:

Art museums -- New York (State) -- New York

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.grier70

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-grier70

Interviewee:

Roberts, Laurance P.  Search this

Interviewer:

Brown, Robert F.  Search this

Names:

American Academy in Rome  Search this

Brooklyn Museum  Search this

New York State Council on the Arts  Search this

Extent:

2 Items (sound cassettes (2 hr., 22 min.))

67 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1985 July 26-29

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Laurance P. Roberts conducted 1985 July 26-29, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.

Roberts speaks of his education at Princeton University; his first employment as a cataloger working on the John G. Johnson Collection for the Philadelphia Museum of Art; studying in China in the 1930s; working as Curator of Near and Far Eastern Art at the Brooklyn Museum (1934-1938) and then becoming Director there (1938-1942); his years as Director of the American Academy in Rome (1946-1959); writing a report advocating the establishment of the New York State Council on the Arts and Humanities for Governor Nelson Rockefeller; writing a guide to Japanese art museums and a dictionary of Japanese artists; living in Italy.

Biographical / Historical:

Laurance P. Roberts (1907-2002) was an art historian and art administrator in New York, Rome, and Philadelphia.

General:

Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 22 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.

Occupation:

Art historians -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Museum directors -- Interviews  Search this

Museum curators -- Interviews  Search this

Function:

Art museums -- New York (State) -- Brooklyn

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.robert85

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-robert85