Oral history interview with Narcissa Swift King
name: label: Interviewee
content: King, Narcissa Swift
label: Interviewer
content: Campbell, Suzan
label: Names
content: O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
topic: label: Occupation
content: Civil rights leaders
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Activists
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. Funding for this interview was provided by the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: King, Narcissa Swift
label: Interviewer
content: Campbell, Suzan
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Narcissa Swift King (1911-1998) was from Chicago, Illinois. She was active in the Civil Rights Movement. King was the great-granddaughter of Gustavus F. Swift, founder of the Swift meat packing company. She helped found and became the first chairwoman of the Chicago Urban League's woman's board in 1964. King moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1979, and was active in the arts community there. She was married to Clinton Blair King.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Sound cassettes (Sound recordings , analog)
label: Extent
content: 56 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991 Oct. 7-1992 Jan. 20
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.king91
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Narcissa Swift King conducted 1991 Oct. 7-1992 Jan. 20, by Suzan Campbell, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: King discusses her friendship with the painter Georgia O'Keeffe, her time in Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico, and associations with Mabel Dodge Luhan; Alfred Stieglitz; Rebecca James; Thornton Wilder. She also discusses her husband, artist Clinton Blair King, as well as O'Keeffe's painting, "Narcissa's Last Orchid."