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Interviewee:
Luce, Molly, 1896-1986  Search this
Interviewer:
Brown, Robert F  Search this
Subject:
Bacon, Peggy  Search this
Bishop, Isabel  Search this
Brook, Alexander  Search this
Burroughs, Alan  Search this
Forbes, Edward Waldo  Search this
Goodrich, Lloyd  Search this
Miller, Kenneth Hayes  Search this
Schmidt, Katherine  Search this
Hopper, Jo N. (Josephine Nivison)  Search this
Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Wheaton College (Ill.)  Search this
Type:
Interviews
Sound recordings
Place of publication, production, or execution:
United States
Physical Description:
44 Pages, Transcript
General Note:
Originally recorded on 2 tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 27 min.
Summary:
An interview of Molly Luce conducted 1981 Mar.10-1981 June 18, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
Luce speaks of her childhood; her early interested in drawing and botany; her two years of study at Wheaton College; her training at Art Students League; her acquaintances from the League including Anne Rector, Katherine Schmidt, Kenneth Hayes Miller; her travels in Europe with her first husband, Alan Burroughs; her residences in Minneapolis, Boston, and finally Little Compton; and observations on a range of her own paintings. She recalls Lloyd Goodrich, Dennis Miller, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Peggy Bacon, Isabel Bishop, Dorothy Varian, Alexander Brook, Edward Forbes, and many others.
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Molly Luce, 1981 Mar. 10-June 18. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Funding:
Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.
Biography Note:
Molly Luce (1896-1986) was a painter in Little Compton, R.I.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
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.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
Women artists  Search this
Women painters  Search this
Theme:
Women  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)11987
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212264
AAA_collcode_luce81
Theme:
Women
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_212264