Oral history interview with Margaret Tomkins
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 21 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Tomkins, Margaret, 1916-
label: Interviewer
content: Guenther, Bruce
label: Names
content: Artists Gallery (Seattle, Wash.)
label: Names
content: FitzGerald, James, 1910-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
label: Topic
content: Abstract expressionism
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Northwestern States -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- Northwestern States
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' Northwest Oral History Project, begun in 1982 to document the Northwest artistic community through interviews with painters, sculptors, craftsmen, educators, curators, and others, in Oregon, Washington and Montana.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Tomkins, Margaret, 1916-
label: Interviewer
content: Guenther, Bruce
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Margaret Tomkins (1916-2002) was a painter from Seattle, Washington.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 39 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1984 June 6
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.tomkin84
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 available on line.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Transcript also available at the University of Washington, Manuscripts Collection, and at the Oregon Historical Society.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Margaret Tomkins conducted 1984 June 6, by Bruce Guenther, for the Archives of American Art's Northwest Oral History Project at the artist's studio in Seattle, Washington.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Tomkins speaks of her childhood in Los Angeles; her education; the art collections in the Los Angeles area; the importance of the WPA project; the founding (with her husband James Fitzgerald) of the Artists Gallery in Seattle in 1958; being a woman artist and a working mother; finishing Fitzgerald's work after his death; her current work; and the influence of abstract expressionism.