Interview with Adelyn Breeskin and Avis Berman (1976 Sept. 8 and Nov. 2) Transcript
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Berman, Avis
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content: Avis Berman research material on art and artists
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content: Avis Berman research material on art and artists / Series 2: Artists and Art Workers Files / Adelyn Breeskin
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content: circa 1976
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content: Box 1, Folder 8
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: Archival materials
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content: Breeskin speaks of her educational background; working at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Museum; her early interest in reading and illustrated books; her role as Curator of Prints and Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Sadie May, Claghorn, Garrett, and Cone Collections; the financial management of the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Venice Biennale, 1960; and her research concerning Mary Cassatt and Romaine Brooks. She recalls Katherine B. Child, Claribel and Etta Cone, William Ivins, Jr., Gertrude Stein, Alicie B. Toklas and others.