Oral history interview with William Bostick
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav file. Duration is 4 hr., 18 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Bostick, William A.
label: Interviewer
content: Rospond, Mary Chris
label: Names
content: Detroit Institute of Arts
label: Names
content: Founders Society
label: Names
content: Scarab Club
label: Names
content: Grotell, Maija
label: Names
content: Richardson, Edgar Preston, 1902-1985
label: Names
content: Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974
label: Names
content: Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Interviews
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: Bostick, William A.
label: Interviewer
content: Rospond, Mary Chris
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: William Bostick (1913-2007) was an art administrator from Detroit, Michigan.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- Michigan -- Detroit
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 74 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 August 11-19
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bostic81
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 online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of William Bostick conducted 1981 August 11-19, by Mary Chris Rospond, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Bostick speaks of his childhood; his early interest in art; his education at the Carnegie Institute and the Detroit Academy of Art; studying at Cranbrook Academy with Zoltan Sepeshy and Maija Grotell; the beginning of his career in commercial art; his early museum career; becoming administrator of the Detroit Institute of Arts; the ART QUARTERLY; the growth of the Detroit Institute's collection and its administrative history; some of the Institute's more important exhibitions; his own artistic style and methods; the Scarab Club and the Founders Society. He recalls E.P. Richardson and William R. Valentiner.