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Interviewee:

Lunder, Peter  Search this

Interviewer:

McElhinney, James, 1952-  Search this

Subject:

Lunder, Paula Crane  Search this

Stern, Max  Search this

Broun, Elizabeth  Search this

Abbott, Jere  Search this

Gourley, Hugh J.  Search this

Colville, Thomas L.  Search this

Twombly, Cy  Search this

Walton, Alice  Search this

Corwin, Sharon  Search this

Cantor, Jay E.  Search this

Bixler, Julius Seelye  Search this

Greenbaum, Michael D.  Search this

Gurney, George  Search this

Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this

Norton Gallery and School of Art  Search this

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute  Search this

Colby College. Museum of Art  Search this

Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)  Search this

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

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Peter and Paula Lunder, 2017 October 19-20. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Interviews  Search this

Philanthropists -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Interviews  Search this

Women art collectors  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17520

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)391113

AAA_collcode_lunder17

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_391113

Interviewee:

Lunder, Peter H.  Search this

Lunder, Paula Crane  Search this

Interviewer:

McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-  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

Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)  Search this

Colby College. Museum of Art  Search this

Norton Gallery and School of Art  Search this

Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute  Search this

Abbott, Jere  Search this

Bixler, Julius Seelye, 1894-1985  Search this

Broun, Elizabeth  Search this

Cantor, Jay E.  Search this

Colville, Thomas L.  Search this

Corwin, Sharon  Search this

Gourley, Hugh J.  Search this

Greenbaum, Michael D.  Search this

Gurney, George  Search this

Stern, Max, 1903-1980  Search this

Twombly, Cy, 1928-  Search this

Walton, Alice, 1949-  Search this

Extent:

5 Items (sound files (2 hr., 41 min.) Audio, digital, wav)

64 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2017 October 19-20

Scope and Contents:

An oral history interview with Peter and Paula Lunder conducted 2017 October 19-20, by James McElhinney, 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 Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

Mr. and Ms. Lunder discuss their time living in Waterville and Dexter, Maine and Mr. Lunder's work as a partner at the Dexter Shoe Company; their exposures to art and culture while growing up in Boston and Chicago; their initial interests in art collecting and the shift of their focus from European art to American art; their associations with Hugh Gourley and other directors and curators at the Colby College Museum of Art; the relationships they made with fellow art collectors, museum curators, art dealers and gallery owners while growing their collection and when working on finding a home for their collection; their relationship with the former director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Betsy Broun; Mr. Lunder's initial interest in Southwestern art and the development of their collection to include a wide range of American art; and Mr. Lunder's partial ownership of the Boston Red Sox beginning in 1977. Mr. and Ms. Lunder also describe living part-time in Florida and their patronage of the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach; their desire to endow their collection to a Northeast regional museum in Maine; their belief in the importance of art conservation and their focus on having the collection be used for teaching; Ms. Lunder's work as a volunteer docent at the Colby Art Museum; and their work with the Clark Art Institute to support a place for art conservation in the region. Mr. and Ms. Lunder also recall Max Stern; Jere Abbott; Bro Adams; Thomas Colville; Margaret MacDonald; Sharon Corwin; Ann and Gil Maurer; Alice Walton as well as Jay Cantor; Seelye Bixler; Michael Greenbaum; George Gurney; Cy Twombly; Stephen Hannock; Doug Baxter; Christa Gaehde; and Michael Conforti, among others.

Biographical / Historical:

Peter Lunder (1933-) and Paula Lunder (1934- ) are art collectors and philanthropists in Boston, Massachusetts. James McElhinney (1952- ) is a painter and educator of 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 -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Interviews  Search this

Philanthropists -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Interviews  Search this

Women art collectors  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by Barbara Fleischman.

Identifier:

AAA.lunder17

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b99a4024-ecd7-4cff-a300-7ac51b4e7245

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-lunder17

Author:

Colby College Museum of Art  Search this

Subject:

Lunder, Peter H Art collections  Search this

Lunder, Paula Crane Art collections  Search this

Colby College Museum of Art  Search this

Physical description:

379 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Place:

Maine

Waterville

China

Date:

2013

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Art--Private collections  Search this

Antiquities  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1015864

Host institution:

Colby College Museum of Art  Search this

Editor:

McCann, Justin 1978-  Search this

Author:

Whistler, James McNeill 1834-1903 Works Selections  Search this

Subject:

Whistler, James McNeill 1834-1903  Search this

Lunder, Peter H Art collections  Search this

Lunder, Paula Crane Art collections  Search this

Colby College Museum of Art  Search this

Physical description:

xi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Place:

Maine

Waterville

Date:

2015

Topic:

Art--Private collections  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1062234