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Oral histories

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Works that record interviews conducted to preserve the recollections of persons whose experience or memories are representative or are of special historical or social significance.

Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:

Frances O'Brien interview with Nancy Wall, audiocassette 13, circa 1987

 Item — Box 5: Series 5, cassette: 13
Identifier: 5
Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Frances O'Brien Papers Relating to Georgia O'Keeffe contains materials collected by Frances O'Brien. The materials document the friendship between the two women from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s.There are approximately one hundred original letters, postcards, and telegrams from O'Keeffe to O'Brien dating from 1947 to 1971. Additionally, there are photocopies of letters from O'Keeffe to O'Brien (only a few photocopies for which there is no original), as well as photocopies...
Dates: circa 1987

Frances O'Brien Papers Relating to Georgia O'Keeffe

 Collection
Identifier: MS-38
Overview

Collection includes materials related to the friendship between Georgia O'Keeffe and Frances O'Brien. The bulk of the items are letters from Georgia O'Keeffe to Frances O'Brien dating 1927-1973.

Dates: circa 1927-1993, undated

Frank, Letitia (Tish) Evans, 2003-01-21, 2003-04-15, 2004-04-27

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Identifier: 1
Overview Letitia (Tish) Evans Frank is the paternal granddaughter of Mabel Dodge Luhan and maternal granddaughter of Alice Corbin Henderson and William Penhallow Henderson. Frank was born in New York City and studied dance with Martha Graham at Bennington College, where she received her M.A. in 1951. She married Paul Frank in 1951. She taught at Juilliard School of Music from 1953 until 1957, when she and her husband moved to Santa Fe. Frank met O'Keeffe around 1960, and she accompanied O'Keeffe on...
Dates: 2003-01-21, 2003-04-15, 2004-04-27

Frank, Letitia (Tish) Evans, 2002-12-05

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Identifier: 1
Overview Letitia (Tish) Evans Frank is the paternal granddaughter of Mabel Dodge Luhan and maternal granddaughter of Alice Corbin Henderson and William Penhallow Henderson. Frank was born in New York City and studied dance with Martha Graham at Bennington College, where she received her M.A. in 1951. She married Paul Frank in 1951. She taught at Juilliard School of Music from 1953 until 1957, when she and her husband moved to Santa Fe. Frank met O'Keeffe around 1960, and she accompanied O'Keeffe on...
Dates: 2002-12-05

Garfield, Brian, 2000-08-25

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Identifier: 1
Overview

Brian Francis Wynne Garfield (b. 1939) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Garfield's mother Francis O'Brien became friends with Georgia O'Keeffe in New York, and she and her son moved to Tucson in 1950. They visited O'Keeffe in Abiquiu several times. Garfield knew O'Keeffe best from 1949 to 1956 and then intermittently until 1971. Garfield is interviewed by Jane Cook at his home in Santa Fe.

Dates: 2000-08-25

Garfield, Brian, 2001-05-11

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Identifier: 1
Overview

Brian Francis Wynne Garfield (b. 1939) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Garfield's mother Francis O'Brien became friends with Georgia O'Keeffe in New York, and she and her son moved to Tucson in 1950. They visited O'Keeffe in Abiquiu several times. Garfield knew O'Keeffe best from 1949 to 1956 and then intermittently until 1971. Garfield is interviewed by Sarah Burt.

Dates: 2001-05-11

Georgia O'Keeffe Oral History Project

 Collection
Identifier: MS-32
Overview

The collection consists of interviews with Georgia O'Keeffe's surviving relatives, colleagues, friends, and employees as well as supporting project documentation. The bulk of the materials date from 2000 to 2003 and include audiocassette recordings, typed transcripts, photographs, and research and project records.

Dates: circa 1970s, 1991-2010; Majority of material found within 2000-2003

Hart, Paul and Joel Muller, 2001-03-20

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Identifier: 1
Overview

Architects Paul Hart and Joel Muller conducted the renovation of Georgia O'Keeffe's Ghost Ranch house in 1999-2000. They were interviewed at the Ghost Ranch house about the restoration process by Jane Cook as they walked through the building.

Dates: 2001-03-20

Hirshhorn, Olga, 2002-07-15

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Identifier: 1
Overview

Olga Hirshhorn (b. 1920) was the wife of art collector and museum founder Joseph Hirshhorn (1899-1981). The Hirshhorns were friends of O'Keeffe in the mid-1960s and purchased several works from her that are now owned by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Hirshhorn was interviewed by Sarah Burt.

Dates: 2002-07-15

Honaker, Veronica B., 2000-03-07

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Identifier: 1
Overview

Veronica Honaker (1915-2001) was an education specialist, and director of federal reading programs in Albuquerque from 1965 to 1980. Her husband, Clyde Honaker (1911-1993), designed the metal frames for O'Keeffe's paintings. Honaker was interviewed by Sarah Burt.

Dates: 2000-03-07