Oral history interview with Margaret Merwin Patch
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 tape reel and 4 cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hrs., 50 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Patch, Margaret Merwin
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Arts administrators -- Massachusetts -- Shelburne Falls -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Handicraft
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Patch, Margaret Merwin
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Margaret Merwin Patch (1894-1987) was a crafts administrator of Shelburne Falls, Mass.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 149 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1980 Oct. 16-1984 Sept. 25
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.patch80
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Margaret Merwin Patch conducted 1980 Oct. 16-1984 Sept. 25, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Patch discusses her childhood and education in Ill.; her career as an economist; training in art at Cranbrook Academy; development of community art center and craft organizations in Mass.; work with Aileen Osborn Webb on American Crafts Council and in co-founding World Crafts Council; and involvement with art organizations in Florida.