Oral history interview with Rosamond Forbes Pickhardt
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 28 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Pickhardt, Rosamond Forbes, 1908-2004
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Fogg Art Museum
label: Names
content: Forbes, Edward Waldo, 1873-1969
label: Names
content: Iacovleff, Alexandre, 1887-1938
label: Names
content: Pickhardt, Carl E.
label: Names
content: Rosenberg, Jakob, 1893-
label: Names
content: Ross, Denman Waldo, 1853-1935
label: Names
content: Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965
label: Names
content: Thompson, Daniel V. (Daniel Varney), 1902-1980
label: Names
content: Tobey, Mark
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content: Warner, Langdon (1881-1955)
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content: Zimmerman, Harold K., 1905-1941
topic: label: Topic
content: Authors -- Massachusetts -- Sherborn -- 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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Pickhardt, Rosamond Forbes, 1908-2004
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Rosamond Forbes Pichardt (1908-2004) was a writer from Sherborn, Mass.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound cassette ((90 min.), analog.)
label: Extent
content: 35 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1995 Feb. 13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pickha95
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Sound cassettes
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content: Pages
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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 Rosamond Forbes Pickhardt conducted 1995 Feb. 13, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Pickhardt recalls her childhood as the daughter of Edward Waldo Forbes, long-time director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University (1909-1944) and Margaret Laighton; her early schooling and early interest in art; her family's 11-month stay in Europe in 1922, with the young Daniel Varney Thompson acting as her father's understudy, and during the time her father studied painting with Alexander Iacovleff in Paris; spending several weeks at the Villa Curonia, near Florence, where many art world figures visited. Pickhardt remembers Paul Sachs who, upon coming to the Fogg, encouraged her to go into museum work; Eric Schroeder, a specialist in Near Eastern art and a life-long friend; Frederick "Ted" Grace, a scholar of classical art who had been groomed by Edward Forbes and Paul Sachs to succeed them as director of the Fogg but who was killed during World War II; Jakob Rosenberg, a German refugee scholar; Deman Ross; Harold Zimmerman with whom she studied drawing; Langdon Warner, a scholar of Asiatic art and one of her father's oldest friends; Kingsley Porter; and Mark Tobey with whom she studied. Pickhardt talks about her third marriage to Carl Pickhardt in 1953 and their life-long ties with the Forbes family.