Oral history interview with Martha Jackson
name: label: Creator
content: Jackson, Martha Kellogg, 1907-1969
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Martha Jackson Gallery
label: Names
content: Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art and literature
label: Topic
content: Art and motion pictures
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art -- Political aspects
label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
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 others.
creator: label: Creator
content: Jackson, Martha Kellogg, 1907-1969
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Martha Kellogg Jackson (1907-1969) was an art dealer in New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 82 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969 May 23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.jackso69
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 4210 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Reproduction Note
content: Item is a transcript.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Location of original tape unknown.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Martha Jackson conducted 1969 May 23, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Jackson speaks of becoming interested in art while living in Baltimore; buying her first painting, a gouache by Marc Chagall; moving to New York City and getting active in collecting art; going to Hans Hofmann's school; opening her gallery in New York in 1953; art as an investment; early shows at her gallery; struggling financially; books and film and their relationship to art; politics and art and their relationship; the psychology of art buying and collecting; the European art market for American art; and her goals for her gallery.