Oral history interview with S. Morton Vose
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 8 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hr., 25 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Vose, S. Morton (Seth Morton), 1909-2007
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Vose Galleries of Boston
label: Names
content: Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910
label: Names
content: Hunt, William Morris, 1824-1879
label: Names
content: Karolik, Maxim
label: Names
content: Murphy, Hermann Dudley, 1867-1945
label: Names
content: Paxton, Elizabeth Okie
label: Names
content: Richardson, Edgar Preston, 1902-1985
label: Names
content: Robinson, Thomas V., 1938-
label: Names
content: Sample, Paul, 1896-1974
label: Names
content: Seyffert, Leopold
label: Names
content: Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958
label: Names
content: Whorf, John, 1903-1959
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- Massachusetts -- Brookline
label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- Massachusetts -- Brookline
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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: Vose, S. Morton (Seth Morton), 1909-2007
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Seth Morton Vose (1909-2007) was an art dealer and art historian from Brookline, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 87 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1986 July 24-1987 April 28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.voses86
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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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 S. Morton Vose conducted 1986 July 24-1987 April 28, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Vose speaks of the pervasive effect of his family's art gallery upon his life; studying languages at Harvard College; his affiliation with the gallery from 1927 on; the increasing emphasis on American painting during his career at the Vose Gallery, and the gradual de-emphasis on European work. He reminisces about some Vose Gallery clients, especially Maxim Karolik, and some art dealers; he discusses a traveling exhibition he was involved in; he speaks of the gallery's relations with prominent museum personnel, such as William Reinhold Valentiner and E.P. Richardson. Vose also discusses the pitfalls of appraising art collections, his father's last years, and the firm's move, and his recent work on a dictionary of American painters. He recalls William Morris Hunt, Thomas Robinson, Leopold Seyffert, Catherine Morris Wright, Maxim Karolik, Elizabeth Paxton, Paul Sample, John Whorf, Hermann Dudley Murphy, Winslow Homer, James Fitzgerald, Arthur Healey, and many others.