Oral history interview with Agnes Mongan
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hrs., 52 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Mongan, Agnes
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Fogg Art Museum
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, American
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content: Curators -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 19th century -- History -- Drawings
label: Topic
content: Women museum curators
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Mongan, Agnes
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Agnes Mongan (1905-1996) was an art historian, curator, and director at Fogg Art Museum. She specialized in 19th century drawings.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 145 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979 June 19-Aug. 30
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mongana79
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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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 Agnes Mongan conducted 1979 June 19-Aug. 30, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art. Mongan recalls her childhood in Somerville, Massachusetts; her education at Bryn Mawr; studying art history with Georgina Goddard King; school trips to France and Italy; studying Quatrocentto art; graduate studies at Smith College; her career at the Fogg Museum of Art; involvement with Harvard groups; the care, exhibitions, and curation of drawing collections; conducting research in Europe; associations with Paul J. Sachs and Edward Forbes, among others.