Oral history interview with Barbara Neville Parker
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 57 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Parker, Barbara Neville
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
label: Names
content: Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815
topic: label: Topic
content: Museum curators -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Women museum curators
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: Parker, Barbara Neville
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Barbara Neville Parker (1905-1991) was a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She was from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 29 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974 January 21
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.parker74
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 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 Barbara Neville Parker conducted 1974 January 21, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art. She discusses her career path leading to curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; her colleagues, and research she conducted on early American painting, among other topics.