Oral history interview with Carroll F. Wales
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 9 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 17 digital wav files. Duration is 12 hr., 20 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Wales, Carroll F., 1918-2007
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Stout, George L. (George Leslie)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art restorers -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Art -- Conservation and restoration
label: Topic
content: Restorers -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 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: Wales, Carroll F., 1918-2007
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Carroll F. Wales (1918-2007) was a restorer from Boston, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Items (sound cassettes Sound recording)
label: Extent
content: 203 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1992 November 10-1993 February 11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wales92
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 with Carroll F. Wales conducted 1992 November 10-1993 February 11, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Wales discusses his childhood as an orphan in Maine; work as a designer for Cheney silk works, Manchester, Connecticut; World War II service in North Africa and Europe; education at Harvard in fine arts under Chandler Post, Frederick Deknatel, and John Coolidge; art conservation training under Morton Bradley, Frank Gettens, and Richard Buck; fellow students Evan Turner, Elizabeth Jones, John Maxon, and Dore Ashton; first jobs restoring Roman mosaic at Worcester Art Museum, Italian paintings in the Jarvis Collection at Yale, and early 19th century murals at Wesleyan University; extended work (1952-1959) through the Byzantine Institute on Byzantine frescoes in Istanbul, George Stout's work on particularly difficult projects, and the division of preparatory work among Greek Christians (figural paintings) and Turkish Moslems (decorative areas); and friendship with British archaeologist Max Mallowan and his wife, author Agatha Christie, while conserving ivories during excavations at Nimrud, Iraq.