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Oral history, 1991.

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Bareiss discusses his life in Europe, his college years at Yale University, and his beginnings as a collector. He focuses on his participation in MoMA activities including his involvement as a member of the Museum's Junior Council; his role in founding the Art Lending Service; his participation as a member of the Committee on the Museum Collections (1956), the Committee on Painting and Sculpture (1967-72), the Committee on Drawings (1972-89) and the Board of Trustees; the events surrounding the dismissal of Bates Lowry and the Museum's search for a permanent director; the arrangement for a syndicate to acquire the Gertrude Stein Collection; and developments in the Painting and Sculpture Department in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Parts of the interview describe Alfred H. Barr, Jr., James Thrall Soby, Rene d'Harnoncourt, Dorothy C. Miller, William S. Paley, William C. Seitz, and Peter Selz.

1 transcript. (142 p.)4 sound cassettes.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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