Oral history interview with Wilbur Herbert Burnham
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 2 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Burnham, Wilbur Herbert, Jr., 1913-1984
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Stained glass artists -- Massachusetts -- Wakefield -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Glass art
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: Burnham, Wilbur Herbert, Jr., 1913-1984
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Wilbur Herbert Burnham (1913-1984) was a stained glass artist from Wakefield, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 46 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 September 11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.burnha81
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 Wilbur Herbert Burnham conducted 1981 September 11, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Burnham speaks of training under his father; education at Yale Art School in drawing and painting; principal jobs; and characterizations of clients, architects, teachers, and fellow stained glass designers.