Oral history interview with Molly Luce
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 27 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Luce, Molly, 1896-1986
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Art Students League (New York, N.Y.) -- Students
label: Names
content: Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Students
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content: Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987
label: Names
content: Bishop, Isabel, 1902-1988
label: Names
content: Brook, Alexander, 1898-1980
label: Names
content: Burroughs, Alan
label: Names
content: Forbes, Edward Waldo, 1873-1969
label: Names
content: Goodrich, Lloyd, 1897-1987
label: Names
content: Hopper, Jo N. (Josephine Nivison), 1883-1968
label: Names
content: Miller, Kenneth Hayes, 1876-1952
label: Names
content: Schmidt, Katherine, 1898-1978
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
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: Luce, Molly, 1896-1986
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Molly Luce (1896-1986) was a painter in Little Compton, R.I.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 44 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 Mar. 10-June 18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.luce81
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Molly Luce conducted 1981 Mar.10-1981 June 18, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Luce speaks of her childhood; her early interested in drawing and botany; her two years of study at Wheaton College; her training at Art Students League; her acquaintances from the League including Anne Rector, Katherine Schmidt, Kenneth Hayes Miller; her travels in Europe with her first husband, Alan Burroughs; her residences in Minneapolis, Boston, and finally Little Compton; and observations on a range of her own paintings. She recalls Lloyd Goodrich, Dennis Miller, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Peggy Bacon, Isabel Bishop, Dorothy Varian, Alexander Brook, Edward Forbes, and many others.