Oral history interview with Marcia Tucker
odd: label: General
content: Sound quality of the first tape is poor.
label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 8 digital wav files. Duration is 8 hr., 20 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Tucker, Marcia
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Curators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
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: Tucker, Marcia
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Marcia Tucker (1940-2006) art historian and curator of New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 218 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1978 August 11-September 8
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.tucker78
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 Marcia Tucker conducted 1978 August 11-September 8, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Ms. Tucker speaks of many aspects of her life. She starts with the incredible poverty she has experienced at times as a young girl and a married woman. She recalls her work with women's organizations and tells us she was in at the start of the women's movement in the USA. She talks about the people she has met, her time in France, her work as a curator at the Whitney and starting the New Museum.