Oral history interview with Margaret Elder Philbrick
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 58 min.
label: General
content: An unrelated interview of Arthur Polonsky (4/12/72) conducted by R. Brown is also on this tape.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Philbrick, Margaret
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- Massachusetts
label: Occupation
content: Etchers -- Massachusetts
label: Topic
content: Prints -- Technique
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women printmakers
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: Philbrick, Margaret
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Margaret Elder Philbrick (1914-1999) was a printmaker and etcher from Westwood, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 28 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971 Nov. 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.philbrm71
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 of Margaret Elder Philbrick conducted 1971 Nov. 2, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art. Philbrick speaks of her childhood, the development of her interest in art, her education at the Massachusetts College of Art, her first involvement with etching, serigraphy and colograph printmaking, her theories and use of color and light, her philosophy of work, and her inspirations.