Context and style in classical archaeology
Subtitle: Evelyn Byrd Harrison
By: interviewed by Richard Cándida Smith and Claire L. Lyons ; Art History Oral Documentation Project compiled under the auspices of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
Contributors: Cándida Smith, Richard, interviewer; Lyons, Claire L., 1955- interviewer; Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; J. Paul Getty Trust
Published: 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: Interviews; Art historians
Other titles: Evelyn Byrd Harrison
Description: Transcript of an interview conducted for the Oral Documentation Project at the Getty Research Institute. The project began in 1991 as a collaboration with the Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was later solely operated by the Getty.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Open for qualified researchers.

Transcripts of the interviews jointly sponsored by the Getty and UCLA are also located at UCLA and in the Bancroft Library at Berkeley.

Art historian and archaeologist Evelyn Byrd is a fifth-century B.C Athenian sculpture expert. Harrison joined the American School of Classical Studies excavation in the Athenian Agora in 1949 and received her doctorate from Columbia in 1952. She was professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia and Princeton before her tenure as professor at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York.

Forms of part: Interviews with art historians (Special Collections, accn. 940109)