Oral history interview with William Milliken
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 10 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hrs., 45 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Milliken, William Mathewson, 1889-1978
label: Interviewer
content: Barrie, Dennis
label: Names
content: Cleveland Museum of Art
label: Names
content: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919
label: Names
content: Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924
label: Names
content: Morgan, J. Pierpont, 1837-1913 (John Pierpont)
label: Names
content: Seligmann, Jacques, 1858-1923
label: Names
content: Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Museum curators -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Museum directors -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews
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: Milliken, William Mathewson, 1889-1978
label: Interviewer
content: Barrie, Dennis
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: William Milliken (1889-1978) was a museum director from Cleveland, Ohio. He was the director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1930-1958.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 106 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974 Dec. 27-1976 Mar. 13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.millik74
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of William Milliken conducted 1974 Dec. 27-1976 Mar. 13, by Dennis Barrie, for the Archives of American Art. Milliken speaks of his family background and history; his childhood; his education, and studies at Princeton; his first position as Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum; his involvement with the Frick and the Cooper Union Museum; his appointment to the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1919, and becoming its director in 1930. He recalls William R. Valentiner, Jacques Seligmann, Isabella Stewart Gardner, J.P. Morgan, Henry Frick and others.