Reminiscences of Paul Joseph Sachs, 1958
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- Name
- Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965 (Interviewee)
- Benison, Saul (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Paul Joseph Sachs, 1958
- Abstract
- Childhood, early career as banker and subsequent work in fine arts at Harvard until 1930; impressions of scholars of art and science; print collecting; collectors and their purveyors; patrons of art in the 20th century; Fogg Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art; Harvard Museum course; cooperation with Princeton Department of Art and Archaeology; Bliss Collection at Dumbarton Oaks; Roberts Fine Arts Com mission, World War II; American museums after World War II with particular reference to activities of former students; a retrospective look at art critics, dealers, training, and the development of art in America. Pertinent correspondence follows each major segment of the oral history
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Art historians; Art; Art--Collectors and collecting; Art museums; Art--Study and teaching; Art criticism; Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965; Harvard University; Fogg Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1958
- Note (Biographical)
- Professor of fine arts
- Note
- Interviewed by Saul Benison
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 15425815
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-ab98-gc03
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.