Oral history interview with Janet W. Solinger
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded 2 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 44 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Solinger, Janet W.
label: Interviewer
content: Pachter, Marc
label: Names
content: Corcoran Gallery of Art
label: Names
content: Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Arts administrators -- Washington (D.C.) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Women arts administrators
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: Solinger, Janet W.
label: Interviewer
content: Pachter, Marc
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Janet Solinger is an arts administrator from Washington, D.C. Marc Pachter is the director of the National Portrait gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 38 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2005 October 7
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.soling05
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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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 Janet W. Solinger conducted 2005 October 7, by Marc Pachter, for the Archives of American Art, in Solinger's home, in Washington, D.C.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Solinger speaks of living in New York in the 1960s, what she calls the "Golden Ages"; going to an exhibition of Mark Rothko's work with her sister; working as an administrator with the Jewish Museum in New York; the climate for women in the museum profession in the 1960s and 70s; becoming the director of publications at New York University; moving to Washington, D.C., to become director of the Smithsonian Resident Associates program; various public programs she created for the Smithsonian during her career; and becoming the vice president for public programs at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She recalls Nelson Glick, Louis Finkelstein, Ben Heller, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Joan Rosebaum, Sam Hunter, Dillon Ripley, Lisa Taylor, David Levy, and others.