Oral history interview with Adele S. Brown and William H. Calfee
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 33 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Brown, Adele Smith, 1910-
label: Interviewer
content: Kirwin, Liza
label: Interviewee
content: Calfee, William H. (William Howard), 1909-1995
label: Names
content: Phillips Studio House
label: Names
content: Acheson, Alice
label: Names
content: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, 1896-1986
label: Names
content: Crosby, Caresse, 1892-
label: Names
content: Cross, Bernice
label: Names
content: Gates, Robert Franklin, 1906-1982
label: Names
content: Groves, George
label: Names
content: Knaths, Karl, 1891-1971
label: Names
content: Marin, John, 1870-1953
label: Names
content: Noland, Kenneth, 1924-2010
label: Names
content: Phillips, Duncan, 1886-1966
label: Names
content: Phillips, Marjorie, 1895-1985
label: Names
content: Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-1991
label: Names
content: Tworkov, Jack
label: Names
content: Watkins, Law Bradley
label: Names
content: West, Hal, 1902-1968
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Topic
content: Women arts administrators
label: Topic
content: Women educators
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern
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: Brown, Adele Smith, 1910-
label: Interviewer
content: Kirwin, Liza
label: Interviewee
content: Calfee, William H. (William Howard), 1909-1995
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Brown, an art administrator in Washington, D.C., managed the sales gallery of the Phillips Studio House from 1933-1937. Calfee, a painter and sculptor, taught at the art school affiliated with Studio House from 1933 until it closed in 1945. Phillips Studio House, founded by C. Law Watkins, Associate Director of the Phillips Memorial Gallery, was both an art school and commercial gallery. It opened in November 1933, and closed in 1945 upon Watkins' death. In 1946 Calfee and a group of artists affiliated with the school were asked to form the first art department faculty at American University for which he served as its department head until 1954.
function: label: Function
content: Art Schools -- Washington (D.C.)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 33 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1995 January 11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.brown95
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on-line at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/brown95.htm
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Adele S. Brown and William H. Calfee conducted 1995 January 11, by Liza Kirwin, at Calfee's home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Brown and Calfee speak of their roles in Phillips Studio House. They recall Law Watkins, Karl Knaths, Duncan Phillips, Bernice Cross, Bob Gates, Marjorie Phillips, Alice Acheson, John Marin, George Groves, Harold West, Adelyn Breeskin, Kenneth Noland, Jack Tworkov, Caresse Crosby, Prentiss Taylor, and many others.