Oral history interview with Marian Locks
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 15 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Locks, Marian, 1914-2010
label: Interviewer
content: Pacini, Marina
label: Names
content: Marian Locks Gallery
label: Names
content: Andrade, Edna, 1917-2008
label: Names
content: Brady, Luther W., 1925-
label: Names
content: Chimes, Thomas, 1921-2009
label: Names
content: Formicola, John Joseph, 1941-
label: Names
content: Havard, James Pinkney, 1937-
label: Names
content: Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974
label: Names
content: Osborne, Elizabeth, 1936-
label: Names
content: Rohrer, Warren
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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: Locks, Marian, 1914-2010
label: Interviewer
content: Pacini, Marina
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Marian Locks (1914-2010) was an art dealer and owner of Marian Locks Gallery. She was from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 79 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1989 Sept. 20-29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.locks89
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
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 of Marian Locks conducted, 1989 Sept, 20-29, by Marina Pacini, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project. Locks discusses her early life, education, administrative work in the WPA, and the evolution of the Marian Locks Gallery, founded in 1968, which represented Philadelphia artists. Locks discusses the artists represented by the gallery including Edna Andrade, Elizabeth Osborne, John Formicola, James Havard, Thomas Chimes, and Warren Rohrer. Along with a discussion of how she met each artist and his/her stylistic development over the years, Locks discusses the sale of the artists' works, who their collectors were and how successful they were over the years. Among the collectors discussed are Dr. Luther Brady and various Philadelphia corporations. She discusses exhibitions at the gallery such as a group show of women artists, and an exhibit of Louis Kahn drawings. She discusses the gallery scene in Philadelphia; efforts to get recognition for Philadelphia artists through the press; the Philadelphia press coverage of the art scene; the relationship between the city's museums and artists; and recent changes in the Marian Locks Gallery.