Oral history interview with Margueritte Kimball
name: label: Interviewee
content: Kimball, Margueritte Eleanor, 1906-1995
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Cranbrook Academy of Art
topic: label: Occupation
content: Administrators -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Hills
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- United States
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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Kimball, Margueritte Eleanor, 1906-1995
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Margueritte Eleanor Kimball (1906-1995) was a financial secretary at Cranbrook Academy of Art, in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (sound cassettes Sound recording: (150 min.), analog.)
label: Extent
content: 81 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1993 Mar. 1-Apr. 13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kimbal93
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 Archive 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 Margueritte Kimball conducted 1993 Mar. 10-Apr. 13, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art, regarding her years at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Kimball discusses her childhood in Clinton, Mass. and Nashua, N.H. in the family of a railroad employee; death of her father and move, in 1926, to Cambridge, Mass. where her mother worked as a milliner and opened a dressmaking business; training in bookkeeping; classes at Copley Society, Boston; enrollment at Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1942, and working as financial secretary there until 1968; and her friendship with Carl and Olga Milles. She recalls Eliel and Loja Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Zoltan Sepeshy, and many other teachers and students, and comments on students who attended via the G.I. Bill and on teacher-student relationship and administration of the Academy.