Garvan, Beatrice, 2006

File — Box: 1, Folder: 4

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Oral History Collection preserves first-hand accounts of the museum’s activities. This collection is comprised of transcripts, audio and video interviews with artists, museum staff, scholars, curators, and trustees.

The recording of oral histories began at the museum in the 1980s and restarted in 2006, with an informal series of interviews that included Henry Magaziner (a close friend of Julian Abele, a noted architect and co-designer of the museum’s Fairmount Building), Ella Schaap (Curator Emerita of Dutch Tiles), and Beatrice Garvan (Curator Emerita of American Decorative Arts).

In 2008, a formal Oral History Project for the museum was implemented. This project enabled the Library and Archives to record a series of professional interviews documenting the work those who have helped to shape the museum as we know it today.

Dates

2006

Creator

Garvan, Beatrice B. (Interviewee, Person)

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 1 linear feet

Additional Description

Abstract

Beatrice Garvan is Curator Emerita of American Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This interview was conducted by Elizabeth Anderson and Susan Anderson in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives on October 31, 2006.