The early years of the Hispanic Society of America
Subtitle: Beatrice Gilman Proske
By: interviewed by Richard Cándida Smith ; 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; Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; J. Paul Getty Trust
Published: 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 69
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Interviews; Art historians
Other titles: Beatrice Gilman Proske
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 Beatrice Gilman Proske was curator of sculpture at The Hispanic Society of America in New York and an honorary trustee at the Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina. Proske studied at Simmons College in Boston. She joined the Hispanic Society as a cataloger in 1920, and later joined its museum department as curator. Her publications include the definitive catalog of the Brookgreen Gardens outdoor sculpture collection, first published in 1936 and revised in 1968.

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