Oral history interview with Estelle Gross
name: label: Interviewee
content: Gross, Estelle Shane, 1929-1992
label: Interviewer
content: Pacini, Marina
label: Names
content: Gross McCleaf Gallery
label: Names
content: Day, Larry, 1921-
label: Names
content: Emerson, Edith, 1888-1981
label: Names
content: Howard, Humbert, 1905-1990
label: Names
content: Lueders, Jimmy C., 1927-1994
label: Names
content: Oakley, Violet, 1874-1961
label: Names
content: Piper, Jane, 1916-1991
label: Names
content: Pittman, Hobson Lafayette, 1899 or 1900-1972
label: Names
content: Weidner, Roswell, 1911-1999
label: Names
content: Weston, Harold, 1894-1972
topic: label: Occupation
content: Gallery directors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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: Gross, Estelle Shane, 1929-1992
label: Interviewer
content: Pacini, Marina
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Estelle Shane Gross (1929-1992) was gallery director at Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was also an amateur painter.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (Sound recording, sound cassettes)
label: Extent
content: 58 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1989 Apr. 5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gross89
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 of Estelle Gross conducted 1989 Apr. 5, by Marina Pacini, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Gross speaks of her background and education; opening the Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia; the artists represented, including Larry Day, Edith Emerson, Violet Oakley, Humbert Howard, Jimmy Lueders, Jane Piper, Carroll Tyson, Roswell Weidner, Harold Weston, Arthur B. Carles, and Hobson Pittman; the Philadelphia art scene including other galleries, the art press, collectors and changes over the past twenty years. Gross also discusses her studies under Hobson Pittman.