Oral history interview with Virginia Wright
name: label: Interviewee
content: Wright, Virginia, 1929-2020
label: Interviewer
content: Riedel, Mija, 1958-
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content: Art Collectors: A Project in Partnership with the Center for the History of Collecting in America at The Frick Collection
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Interviews
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content: Philanthropists -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Interviews
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content: Women art collectors
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: Wright, Virginia, 1929-2020
label: Interviewer
content: Riedel, Mija, 1958-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Virginia Wright (1929-2020) was an art collector and philanthropist in Seattle, Washington. Mija Riedel (1958- ) is an independent scholar in San Francisco, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 88 Pages (Transcript)
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content: 4 Items (sound files (3 hrs., 13 min.), digital, wav)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2017 March 22- 23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wright17
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An oral history interview with Virginia Wright conducted 2017 March 22-23, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art and the Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection, at Wright's home in Seattle, Washington.