Oral history interview with Charles E. Buckley
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 sound files. Duration is 5 hr., 53 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Buckley, Charles E.
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: City Art Museum of St. Louis
label: Names
content: Corcoran Gallery of Art
label: Names
content: Currier Gallery of Art
label: Names
content: Wadsworth Atheneum
topic: label: Topic
content: Museum directors -- 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: Buckley, Charles E.
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Charles E. Buckley (1919-2011) was a curator and museum director in Washington, D.C. and Manchester, New Hampshire.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Items (sound files, digital, wav file)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1980 June 18-Sept. 19
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.buckle80
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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 Charles E. Buckley conducted 1980 June 18-Sept. 19, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Buckley speaks of his childhood; his educational background; his training in painting at the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1930s; his trip to Mexico, 1940; his decision to pursue a curatorial career; his art history training at the Fogg Art Museum; his past curatorial positions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and at the Wadsworth Atheneum; and his directorship of the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire and the St. Louis City Art Museum.