Oral history interview with Michael Whitney Straight
name: label: Interviewee
content: Straight, Michael Whitney
label: Interviewer
content: Raikin, Laurin
label: Interviewer
content: Schwartz, Barry N.
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Washington (D.C.) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Arts administrators -- Washington (D.C.) -- 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: Interviewee
content: Straight, Michael Whitney
label: Interviewer
content: Raikin, Laurin
label: Interviewer
content: Schwartz, Barry N.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Michael Whitney Straight (1916- ) is an arts administrator and an art collector in Washington, D.C.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 27 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1971
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.straig71
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Reproduction Note
content: Item is a transcript.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Location of original tape unknown.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview of Michael Whitney Straight conducted by Laurin Raikin and Barry Schwartz for the Archives of American Art "Art World in Turmoil" oral history project.