Oral history interview with Marjorie Phillips
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 1 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Phillips, Marjorie, 1895-1985
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Phillips Collection
label: Names
content: Phillips, Duncan, 1886-1966
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Washington (D.C.) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Washington (D.C.) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Collectors -- Washington, D.C. -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is 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: Phillips, Marjorie, 1895-1985
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Marjorie Phillips (1895-1985) was a painter and collector from Washington, D.C. She was the wife of Duncan Phillips. Social Security Death Index and the Phillips Collection website site her birth date as 1894.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape (Sound recording: 1 sound tape, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 61 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974 June 27
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.philli74
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tapes
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 Marjorie Phillips conducted 1974 June 27, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Phillips speaks of the Art Students League; marriage to Duncan Phillips and starting a gallery in the family house, exhibitions, purchases of art work; forming the collection; influence of the Phillips Collection; her book Duncan Phillips and His Collection; and her own painting and exhibition.