Oral history interview with Walter P. Chrysler
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 20 min.
name: label: Creator
content: Chrysler, Walter P. (Walter Percy), 1909-1988
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
label: Names
content: Chrysler Museum
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown -- 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: Creator
content: Chrysler, Walter P. (Walter Percy), 1909-1988
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Walter P. Chrysler (1909-1988) was an art collector in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Chrysler opened his museum in 1958 in Provincetown in an old church, then moved the museum in 1970 to a larger permanent location in Norfolk, Virginia.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 6 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 September 5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.chrysl64
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Walter P. Chrysler conducted 1964 September 5, by Dorothy Seckler, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Chrysler speaks of Provincetown as an art colony; the role of the Chrysler Art Museum in Provincetown, Massachusetts; and the museum's collections, acquisitions, and exhibitions.