Oral history interview with Adelyn Dohme Breeskin
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 2 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, 1896-1986
label: Interviewer
content: Haifley, Julie
label: Names
content: Baltimore Museum of Art
label: Names
content: Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.)
label: Names
content: Cassatt, Mary, 1844-1926
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- Maryland -- Baltimore
label: Occupation
content: Art museum curators -- Maryland -- Baltimore
label: Occupation
content: Art museum directors -- Maryland -- Baltimore
label: Topic
content: Women art historians
label: Topic
content: Women museum curators
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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Breeskin, Adelyn Dohme, 1896-1986
label: Interviewer
content: Haifley, Julie
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Adelyn Dohme Breeskin (1896-1986) was museum director, art historian, and curator from Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- Maryland -- Baltimore
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 72 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979 June 20-August 14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.breesk79
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.
label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: August transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 3196 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Adelyn Breeskin conducted 1979 June 20-August 14, by Julie Link Haifley, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Breeskin speaks of her childhood and growing up in Baltimore; attending Bryn Mawr College and Radcliffe; her art work; the influence of Katherine B. Child; the Stuart Club; travel abroad; the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Gallery; prints and printmaking; teaching; the Garrett Collection of prints; her experience at the 1960 Venice Biennale; the art collectors Etta and Claribel Cone; and published writings on Mary Cassatt.