Oral history interview with Margaret Bensco
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 31 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Bensco, Margaret Lawson, b. 1895
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Names
content: Lawson, Ernest, 1873-1939
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' 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: Bensco, Margaret Lawson, b. 1895
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Margaret Lawson Bensco (1895-1989) was the daughter of painter Ernest Lawson.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 37 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1976 September 7
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bensco76
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 Bensco conducted 1976 September 7, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, in Berkeley, California.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Bensco discusses her father, artist Ernest Lawson. She speaks of Lawson's career and his relationship with other artists, the 1908 exhibition of the "Eight" at the Macbeth Gallery; her early childhood in Connecticut and New York City, her aspirations to become a sculptor, and her father's relationship with the family.