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Oral history interview with Mary J. Gruskin, 1992 October 27

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Interviewee:
Gruskin, Mary J.  Search this
Interviewer:
Stavitsky, Gail, 1954-  Search this
Subject:
Gruskin, Alan D. (Alan Daniel)  Search this
Midtown Galleries (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Type:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Place of publication, production, or execution:
United States
Physical Description:
Sound recording: 2 Sound cassettes; 66 Pages, Transcript
Summary:
An interview of Mary J. Gruskin conducted 1992 October 27, by Gail Stavitsky, for the Archives of American Art.
Gruskin discusses Midtown Galleries which she owned with her husband Alan Gruskin; various artists they represented including Waldo Peirce and Isabel Bishop; and realism and abstraction in the 1930s.
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Mary J. Gruskin, 1992 October 27. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Biography Note:
Mary J. Gruskin and her husband Alan Gruskin were art dealers in New York, N.Y.
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 administrators.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)12081
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)214902
AAA_collcode_gruski92
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_214902