Oral history interview with Maud Cabot Morgan
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 8 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 15 digital wav files. Duration is 7 hrs., 22 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Morgan, Maud, 1903-1999
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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: Morgan, Maud, 1903-1999
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Maud Cabot Morgan (1903-1999) was a painter and collagist from New York City. She later lived and worked in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recording, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 65 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974 Mar. 21-Nov. 18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.morgan74
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
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 Maud Cabot Morgan conducted 1974 Mar. 21-Nov. 18, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art. She recalls her family; her childhood spent in New York and rural Quebec; her education; her political involvement; her travels to France, Germany, Russia, and India, studying with Hans Hofmann; her teaching career; her exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and Betty Parsons Gallery; the Boston Visual Artists Union; Boston and Cambridge art scene; her husband, Patrick Morgan; her associations with Waldo Peirce; Alexander Calder; Barnett Newman; Ernest Hemingway; James Joyce, among others.