Oral history interview with Charles E. Buckley
Object Details
- General
- Originally recorded on 3 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 sound files. Duration is 5 hr., 53 min.
- Interviewee
- Buckley, Charles E.
- Interviewer
- Brown, Robert F.
- Names
- City Art Museum of St. Louis
- Corcoran Gallery of Art
- Currier Gallery of Art
- Wadsworth Atheneum
- Topic
- Museum directors -- Interviews
- 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.
- Interviewee
- Buckley, Charles E.
- Interviewer
- Brown, Robert F.
- 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.
- Biographical / Historical
- Charles E. Buckley (1919-2011) was a curator and museum director in Washington, D.C. and Manchester, New Hampshire.
- Function
- Art museums
- Extent
- 6 Items (sound files, digital, wav file)
- Date
- 1980 June 18-Sept. 19
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.buckle80
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Scope and Contents
- An interview of Charles E. Buckley conducted 1980 June 18-Sept. 19, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
- Buckley speaks of his childhood; his educational background; his training in painting at the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1930s; his trip to Mexico, 1940; his decision to pursue a curatorial career; his art history training at the Fogg Art Museum; his past curatorial positions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and at the Wadsworth Atheneum; and his directorship of the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire and the St. Louis City Art Museum.
- Restrictions
- The recording is open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.
- Record ID
- ebl-1596164418804-1596164418805-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
Oral history interview with Charles E. Buckley, 1980 June 18-Sept. 19, Digital Sound Recording (Excerpt)
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