Oral history interview with Virginia Cuthbert
odd: label: General
content: Due to a stroke in 1994, Ms. Cuthbert's voice is not clearly audible.
label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 26 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Cuthbert, Virginia, 1908-2001
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Elliott, Philip Clarkson, 1903-1985
label: Names
content: John, Augustus, 1878-1961
label: Names
content: Luks, George Benjamin, 1867-1933
label: Names
content: Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff
label: Names
content: Saint-Gaudens, Homer, b. 1880
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
label: Occupation
content: Illustrators -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women educators
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Cuthbert, Virginia, 1908-2001
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Virginia Cuthbert (1908-2001) was a painter from Buffalo, New York and Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound cassette ((90 min.), analog.)
label: Extent
content: 40 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1995 August 28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cuthber95
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Virginia Cuthbert conducted 1995 August 28, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art, in Cuthbert's home, Buffalo, New York.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Virginia Cuthbert discusses her family background in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area; and her father's love of art and acquaintance with Homer Saint-Gaudens, Director of the Carnegie Museum of Art; her very early art education and, later, her study in Europe on a Syracuse University fellowship; her brief study with Felice Carena in Florence and critiques of her work in London by Augustus John and Colin Gill; her study and friendship in New York with George Luks and the beginning of a long friendship with the composer, Virgil Thompson; graduate study in fine arts at the University of Pittsburgh; her engagement to the future museum director, Andrew Ritchie, its breaking-off, and her marriage to Philip Elliott; her further study at the Carnegie Institute with Alexander Kostellow; and a sketching trip to France and Spain.