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Archives related to: Childs, Charles
| title | Oral history interview with Charles Childs, 1972 Apr. 18-May 12 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Charles Childs conducted by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art. Childs speaks of his childhood and the development of his interest in art; his first involvement with printmaking; studying at Normal Art School; working at Goodspeed's Print Shop; the art scene in Boston in the 1920s and 1930s; his theories and approaches to art collecting; the development of the Boston Arts Festival; and his involvement with the Institute of Contemporary Art. He recalls John Taylor Arms, Samuel Chamberlain, Maxim Karolik, and George Wales. Bio / His Notes: Art dealer, art collector; Boston, Mass. General Note: Parts 3 & 4 of Childs interview is under Walter Feldman on tape 2. |
| extent | Sound recordings: 2 sound tape reels ; 5 in. Transcript: 70 p. (on one microfilm reel) reel 3196 |
| formats | Interviews Sound Recording Transcript Microfilm |
| access | Transcript: Patrons must use microfilm copy. |
| record link | n/a |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-charles-childs-12906 |
| acquisition information | 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. |
| updated | 06/08/2023 16:42:19 |
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| title | Kraushaar Galleries records, 1877-2006 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | ** Material relating to Charles Childs found in Box 37, Folder 14. The records of New York City Kraushaar Galleries measure 106.3 linear feet and 0.181 GB and date from 1877 to 2006. Three-fourths of the collection documents the gallery's handling of contemporary American paintings, drawings, and sculpture through correspondence with artists, private collectors, museums, galleries, and other art institutions, interspersed with scattered exhibition catalogs and other materials. Also included are John F. Kraushaar's estate records; artists' files; financial ledgers documenting sales and gallery transactions; consignment and loan records; photographs of artwork; sketchbooks and drawings by James Penney, Louis Bouché, and others; and two scrapbooks. There is a 6.0 linear foot unprocessed addition to this collection donated in 2022 that includes correspondence with artists, galleries, organizations and individuals regarding works of art, filed alphabetically by year. Materials date from circa 1959-1999, with the bulk from 1990-1999. |
| extent | 106.3 Linear feet; 0.181 Gigabytes |
| formats | Clippings Correspondence Financial Records Photographs Catalogs |
| access | This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. A fragile original scrapbook is restricted. Contact Reference Services for more information. |
| record link | http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/kraushaar-galleries-records-7781 |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| finding aid | https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/AAA.kraugall.pdf |
| acquisition information | 53.5 linear feet of records were donated to the Archives of American Art by Kraushaar Galleries in three separate accessions in 1959, 1994, and 1996. Katherine Kaplan of Kraushaar Galleries donated an additional 38.4 linear feet in 2008-2009 and an additional 8.4 linear feet in 2012-2017 and 6.0 linear feet in 2022. |
| updated | 04/26/2023 14:51:57 |
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| title | Oral history interview with Josephine Marie Caruso Castano regarding Giovanni (John) Castano, 1991 May 17 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Josephine Marie Caruso Castano regarding her husband, painter and art dealer Giovanni (John) Castano, conducted by Robert Brown for the Archives of American Art. Castano discusses her childhood and marriage to Giovanni (John) Castano; his career in Cincinnati as a scene painter for the local opera company; moving to Boston circa 1930; his career there as an art dealer, owner of Castano Galleries, and an agent for Wildenstein and Knoedler's; his work as a teacher and painting restorer; the sculptor Franz Denghausen; and passing references to various painters, museum personnel, and art dealers. 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 administrators. |
| extent | Sound recording: 1 sound cassette. Transcript: 23 p. |
| formats | Sound Recording Interview |
| access | none |
| record link | https://www.aaa.si.edu/download_pdf_transcript/ajax?record_id=edanmdm-AAADCD_oh_214655 |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-josephine-marie-caruso-castano-relating-to-giovanni-john-castano-12733 |
| finding aid | Finding aid and Transcript available online |
| acquisition information | 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 administrators. |
| updated | 06/08/2023 16:42:20 |
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| title | Oral history interview with S. Morton Vose, 1986 July 24-1987 April 28. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of S. Morton Vose conducted by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art. Vose speaks of the pervasive effect of his family's art gallery upon his life; studying languages at Harvard College; his affiliation with the gallery from 1927 on; the increasing emphasis on American painting during his career at the Vose Gallery, and the gradual deemphasis on European work. He reminisces about some Vose Gallery clients, especially Maxim Karolik, and some art dealers; he discusses a traveling exhibition he was involved in; he speaks of the gallery's relations with prominent museum personnel, such as William Reinhold Valentiner and E.P. Richardson. Vose also discusses the pitfalls of appraising art collections, his father's last years, and the firm's move, and his recent work on a Dictionary of American Painters. He recalls William Morris Hunt, Thomas Robinson, Leopold Seyffert, Catherine Morris Wright, Maxim Karolik, Elizabeth Paxton, Paul Sample, John Whorf, Hermann Dudley Murphy, Winslow Homer, James Fitzgerald, Arthur Healey, and many others. Bio / His Notes: Art dealer, art historian; Brookline, Mass. |
| extent | Sound recording: 4 sound cassettes. Transcript: 87 p. |
| formats | Interview Transcript Online Transcript |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | https://www.aaa.si.edu/download_pdf_transcript/ajax?record_id=edanmdm-AAADCD_oh_216517 |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-s-morton-vose-12367 |
| finding aid | Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's Web site. |
| acquisition information | 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. |
| updated | 06/08/2023 16:42:20 |
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| title | Oral history interview with Robert Taylor, 1980 Mar. 13-1990 June 7 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Robert Taylor conducted 1980 Mar. 13-1990 June 7, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art, in Marblehead, Mass. Robert Taylor (1925-2009) was an art, literary and music critic, author, educator, and lecturer from Boston, Mass. Wrote for the Boston Herald, 1952-1967, Boston Globe, 1968-1989. Columns for New Boston Review, later appearing in "Atlantic Monthly," were written under pseudonym Count Bibesco. |
| extent | Sound recording: 2 sound tape reels (2 hrs. 30 min.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips. 5 in. Sound recording: 1 sound cassette (90 min) Transcript: 75 p. |
| formats | Sound Recording Interview |
| access | none |
| record link | http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-robert-taylor-11634#transcript |
| record source | http://www.aaa.si.edu |
| finding aid | FindingaAid and transcript available online |
| acquisition information | 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 the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:16 |
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| title | Oral history interview with Polly Thayer, 1995 May 12-1996 February 1 | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | An interview of Polly Thayer (Starr) conducted by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art. 5/12/95 session: Thayer talks about her childhood in an upper class Boston family, thriving on drawing in charcoal from casts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, under tutelage of Beatrice Van Ness; her social debut, 1921-1922; a trip in the summer of 1922 to the Orient with her mother and brother where she was caught in the Tokyo earthquake; Philip Hale's method of teaching drawing at the Museum School in Boston, 1923-1924 and, later, privately; Eugene Speicher's urging her to free herself from Hale's teaching; the difficulty of making the transition to painting which; and winning of the Hallgarten Prize of National Academy of Design, 1929. 5/18/95 session: Studying with Charles W. Hawthorne in Provincetown, Mass. in the summer of 1923-1924, which countered the rigidity of her training at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston School; travels in Spain and Morocco in early 1929, at the time her large painting of a nude, "Circles," won the Hallgarten Prize; the importance to her of a letter in 1929 from the critic, Royal Cortissoz, urging her to not fall into the trap of the Boston School and become formulaic in her work; her first one-person show at Doll and Richards, Boston, which resulted in 18 portrait commissions; her ease with which she did self-portraits early in her career, but not so later; and her difficulty in holding the attention of portrait sitters. 5/30/95 session: Studying with Harry Wickey at the Art Students League, who taught her by boldly re-working her drawings for "plastic" values, which Starr quickly achieved; sketching medical operations and back-stage at theatres, which gave her the dramatic subject matter she sought in the early 1930s; her portraits; getting married in 1933 and the affect on her work; and her work at the Painter's Workshop in Boston with Gardner Cox and William Littlefield. She recalls May Sarton whose portrait she painted in 1936, Charles Hopkinson, and Hans Hofmann. 2/01/96 session: The distractions from painting brought about by marriage, children, acting, an active social life and much travel; her increased involvement in social concerns through her conversion to Quakerism; the simplification of her paintings beginning in the late 1930s and her steady execution of portrait commissions, which took less time; her exhibitions in Boston and New York through the 1940s and the rarity of them after that; being a board member of the Institute of Modern Art, Boston, and its co-founder, Nathaniel Saltonstall; her approach to painting which amounts to seeking the invisible in the visual world; and the onset of glaucoma which has ended her painting career. Biographical Note Painter; Boston. |
| extent | 3 sound cassettes (4 1/2 hrs.) : analog. 89 p. transcript. |
| formats | Interview Sound Recording Transcript Online Transcript |
| access | Contact repository for restrictions and policies. |
| record link | https://www.aaa.si.edu/download_pdf_transcript/ajax?record_id=edanmdm-AAADCD_oh_215859 |
| record source | https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-polly-thayer-12461 |
| finding aid | Transcript found on the repository's web site in electronic form. |
| acquisition information | This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1959 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators. |
| updated | 06/08/2023 16:42:20 |
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