Oral history interview with Gardner Cox
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav file. Duration is 4 hr., 14 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Cox, Gardner, 1906-1988
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Portrait painting -- 20th century -- Massachusetts -- Boston
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: Interviewee
content: Cox, Gardner, 1906-1988
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Gardner Cox (1906-1988) was a painter from Boston, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Items (sound files, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 107 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974 March 19-July 8
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cox74
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: Interview of Gardner Cox conducted by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Boston, MA, from March 19-July 8.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Cox speaks of his childhood friends, his parents' artistic leanings, his early painting instructors, his education at Harvard, his training and early career in architecture; his portraits of socialites and Democratic party notables, and describes his sketches and their relationship to his portraits. He also recalls Amy Lowell, R.H. Ives Gammell, Charles Webster Hawthorne, Frank Shay, John Frazier, Aldro Hibbard, and others.