Oral history interview with Thurston and Sharon Twigg-Smith
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded as 6 sound files. Duration is 3 hr.; 37 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Twigg-Smith, Thurston
label: Interviewer
content: Morse, Marcia
label: Interviewee
content: Twigg-Smith, Sharon, 1944-
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Hawaii
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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Twigg-Smith, Thurston
label: Interviewer
content: Morse, Marcia
label: Interviewee
content: Twigg-Smith, Sharon, 1944-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Thurston Twigg-Smith (1921-2016) is a retired newspaper publisher, philanthropist, and art collector in Honolulu, Hawaii. His wife, Sharon Twigg-Smith (1944- ) is an artist, curator, and art collector in Honolulu, Hawaii. Marcia Morse (1944- ) is an artist and arts writer in Kailua, Hawaii.
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content: 6 Items (sound files (3 hr., 37 min.), digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 86 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2013 April 21 - May 25
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.twiggs13
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Thurston and Sharon Twigg-Smith conducted 2013 April 21-May 25, by Marcia Morse, for the Archives of American Art at the Twigg-Smith's home in Honolulu, Hawaii.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Thurston and Sharon Twigg-Smith speak of the Hawaiian Eye; Contempo; Yale Art Gallery; how they began collecting; stamp collecting; moving; the Spalding House; family; the Advertiser; World War II; art in Hawaii; Frank Stella, Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Thiebaud; Pergussa Three; Georgia O'Keeffe; donating works; buying back works; Honolulu Museum of Art; prints; local art; Twin Farms; Serious Fun; Bay Area artists; changes in the art world, fundraising; the IRS, taxes; donating art; artists in the family; making art; family interest in art; Giclee prints; the pink house; collecting and connecting; Persimmon Puzzles; bidding on works; relationships with dealers; Ed Ruscha; Cy Twombly; Artists of Hawaii; docent work; collecting; John Singer Sargent; and Andrew Rose Gallery. The Twigg-Smiths also recall Laila Roster, Graham Salisbury, Carol Salisbury, Pat Gottfried, Jack Newton, Jacques Reynolds, Sherry Pierce, and Eli Broad.