Oral history interview with Francis Sumner Merritt
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 14 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Merritt, Francis Sumner, 1913-2000
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Cranbrook Academy of Art
label: Names
content: Flint Institute of Arts
label: Names
content: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Maine -- Interviews
label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Maine -- Deer Isle
label: Topic
content: Designers -- Maine -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Educators -- Maine -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Depressions -- 1929
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: Merritt, Francis Sumner, 1913-2000
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Francis Sumner Merritt (1913-2000) was a painter, designer, art administrator, and the founder of Haystack Mountan School of Craftsof Deer Isle, Me. He studied at the Vesper George School of Art, the San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, the Massachusetts School of Art, and the Yale Univ. School of Fine Arts. Merritt taught at Bradford Junior College and was head of art department. He died Dec. 27, 2000, at age 87.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 61 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979 May 25-June 25
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.merrit79
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 Francis Sumner Merritt conducted 1979 May 25-June 25, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Merritt speaks of his education at art schools in Boston and at Yale; his career as a painter during the Depression; teaching at the Cranbrook Academy of Art; his tenure at the Flint (Michigan) Institute of Arts, 1947-1951; and the development of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts at Liberty and then at Deer Isle, Me.