Oral history interview with Henry Plumer McIlhenny
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 4 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: McIlhenny, Henry P.
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Creator
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
label: Names
content: Philadelphia Museum of Art
label: Names
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
label: Names
content: Rosenberg, Paul, 1881-1959
label: Names
content: Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965
label: Names
content: Watkins, Franklin Chenault, 1894-1972
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Pennsylvania -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' 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: McIlhenny, Henry P.
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Creator
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Henry McIlhenny (1910-1986) was an art collector, curator, and arts administrator from Philadelphia, Pa.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 56 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974 Oct. 28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mcilhe74
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 Henry Plumer McIlhenny conducted 1974 Oct. 28, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: McIlhenny speaks about his parent's interest in collecting; his own collecting; studying with Paul Sachs at Harvard; his interest in 19th century art, travels to Europe, purchasing works by Seurat, Degas, Ingres, and Chardin; dealers he worked with including Paul Rosenberg and Valentine Dudensing; his tenure as decorative arts curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, staff, and exhibitions; the completion of the museum building by the WPA; and commissioning paintings from Franklin Watkins.