Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Barbara Neville Parker, 1974 January 21. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Topic:
Museum curators -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Interviews Search this
An interview of Barbara Neville Parker conducted 1974 January 21, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art. She discusses her career path leading to curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; her colleagues, and research she conducted on early American painting, among other topics.
Biographical / Historical:
Barbara Neville Parker (1905-1991) was a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She was from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
General:
Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 57 min.
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.
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Topic:
Museum curators -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Interviews Search this