Oral history interview with Miriam Hapgood DeWitt
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 46 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: DeWitt, Miriam Hapgood, 1906-1990
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Boyce, Neith, 1872-1951
label: Names
content: DeWitt, John, 1910-1984
label: Names
content: Hapgood, Hutchins, 1869-1944
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Authors -- Massachussetts -- Provincetown -- Interviews
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: DeWitt, Miriam Hapgood, 1906-1990
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Miriam Hapgood DeWitt (1906-1990) was a writer from Provincetown, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Items (sound files (3 hr., 46 min), digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 67 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1987-1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dewitt87
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: An interview with Miriam Hapgood DeWitt conducted 1987-1988, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: DeWitt discusses her childhood in the New York area and Provincetown, Massachusetts, as the daughter of two writers, Hutchins Hapgood and Neith Boyce. She recalls various artists and writers, as well as eventful years in New York and Taos, New Mexico. She also speaks of her second husband, John DeWitt, and his involvement with major federal government art projects during the 1960s and 1970s.