Oral history interview with Daniel Varney Thompson
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hr., 55 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Thompson, Daniel V. (Daniel Varney), 1902-1980
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Courtauld Institute of Art -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Fogg Art Museum
label: Names
content: Harvard University -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Yale University -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959
label: Names
content: Forbes, Edward Waldo, 1873-1969
label: Names
content: Ivins, William Mills, 1881-1961
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content: Meeks, Everett, 1879-1954
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content: Warner, Langdon (1881-1955)
place: label: Place
content: China -- Description and Travel
label: Place
content: India -- description and travel
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- Interviews
label: Occupation
content: Conservators -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painting -- Technique
label: Topic
content: Art -- History -- Study and teaching
label: Topic
content: Cave paintings
label: Topic
content: Painting, Medieval -- Study and teaching
label: Topic
content: Painting, Medieval -- Technique
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Thompson, Daniel V. (Daniel Varney), 1902-1980
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Daniel V. Thompson (1902-1980) was an art historian, conservator, professor, and chemist engineer. Thompson studied techniques of medieval and Renaissance painting. He was a professor at the Courtald Institute, London, 1938-1947.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 46 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974 September 25-1976 November 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.thomps74
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content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Daniel Varney Thompson conducted 1974 September 25-1976 November 2, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Thompson speaks of authenticating a painting by Leonardo Da Vinci; teaching at Harvard University with Edward Waldo Forbes; his 1923-1925 expedition to India and China with Langdon Warner and Fogg Art Museum personnel to study cave paintings; setting up the art history department at Yale with Everett Meeks and teaching tempera painting; his studies in Europe and work at the Courtauld Institute in London; and translating manuscripts dealing with medieval painting techniques and media. He recalls Bernard Berenson and William Mills Ivins.