Oral history interview with Churchhill Lathrop
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 10 digital wav files. Duration is 7 hrs., 17 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Lathrop, Churchill P.
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Dartmouth College -- Faculty -- Interviews
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content: Dartmouth College. Museum
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content: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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content: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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content: Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- United States -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art in universities and colleges
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content: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- United States
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: Lathrop, Churchill P.
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Churchill P. Lathrop (1900-1995) was an art historian at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. Full name Churchill Pierce Lathrop, but often known as Jerry Lathrop. Lathrop joined the Art Department at Dartmouth in 1928, serving as chair 1932-1936, 1940-1948, and 1962-1965, before retiring in 1966. In addition to teaching, Lathrop was director of the college's art galleries, custodian of Dartmouth's art collections, and founder of its Sherman Art Library.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Items (sound files, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 121 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1982 Feb. 25-1983 Jan. 26
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lathro82
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Churchill Lathrop conducted 1982 Feb. 25-1983 Jan. 26, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Lathrop discusses his childhood in Montclair, N.J.; college at Rutgers; various jobs in the 1920s; attending Princeton University where he received his M.A. in art history and his teachers there, including Charles Rufus Morey and Frank Jewett Mather. He reviews his tenure at Dartmouth, discussing work with Artemas Packard, involvement with Dartmouth alumnus Nelson Rockefeller and his mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller in building a collection of modern art at Dartmouth, visiting artist José Clemente Orozco and his mural painted for Baker Library, his directorship of the Dartmouth art galleries and work in planning the Hopkins Art Center, and Mrs. Aileen Osborn Webb's attempts to establish a graduate level design school at Dartmouth in the 1940s. He recalls acquaintances and colleagues, including Alfred Stieglitz, Adelbert Ames, A. Conger Goodyear, Dorothy Miller, Alfred Barr, Jr. and others at the Museum of Modern Art, and Hilla Rebay and others involved in the Guggenheim Museum of Non-Objective Paintings.