Oral history interview with Donald Barton
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 16 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Barton, Donald, 1903-1990
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Allen, Charles Curtis, 1886-1950
label: Names
content: Hale, Philip Leslie, 1865-1931
label: Names
content: Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966
label: Names
content: Stevens, William Lester, 1888-1969
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Photographers -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
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: Barton, Donald, 1903-1990
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Donald Barton (1903-1990) was a painter and photographer from Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound cassette
label: Extent
content: 31 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1989 March 31
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.barton89
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
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 with Donald Barton conducted 1989 March 31, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Barton speaks of his childhood in Fitchburg, the son of a painter; attending the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston School from 1922-1925; his friendships with William Lester Stevens and Charles Allen; studying with Hans Hofmann; going on a painting trip to the West in 1928; and his subsequent career as a commercial photographer. He recalls Philip Leslie Hale.