Oral history interview with Agnes Abbot
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes and 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hrs., 2 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Abbot, Agnes Anne, 1897-1992
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Hibbard, A. T.  (Aldro Thompson) (1886-1972)
label: Names
content: Woodbury, Charles H. (Charles Herbert), 1864-1940
topic: label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Occupation
content: Watercolorists -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women educators
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Abbot, Agnes Anne, 1897-1992
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Agnes A. Abbot (1897-1992) was a painter and watercolorist from Wellesley, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 75 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 August 25-1982 January 15
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.abbot81
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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 Agnes Abbot conducted 1981 August 25-1982 January 15, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Abbot speaks of her early education in Berlin; training at the Child-Walker School in Boston under Aldro T. Hibbard and Charles H. Woodbury; and her early years as a studio art instructor at Wellesley College.