Oral history, 1993.

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Oral history, 1993.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122604491

Ms. Mazo discusses coming to work at the Museum at the beginning of World War II, and includes descriptions of Dorothy C. Miller, Dorothy H. Dudley, Rene d'Harnoncourt, James Thrall Soby, and Alfred H. Barr, Jr. The relationship between the artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1893-1953), to whom Ms. Mazo was married, and the Museum is described as are the evolution of the Museum's Department of Painting and Sculpture from the Department of Museum Collections and changes in the department during the 1950s and 60s.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Dept. of Painting and Sculpture.

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Soby, James Thrall, 1906-1979

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Writer, critic; New Canaan, Connecticut. Died 1979. From the description of James Thrall Soby interview, 1970 July 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220190225 Author, art critic, editor, collector, patron, connoisseur, and MoMA director and trustee. From the description of James Thrall Soby papers, 1930-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122484551 James Thrall Soby (1906-1979) was a writer and critic from New Canaan, Conn. From the descript...

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 1889-1953

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Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Yasuo Kuniyoshi letter to Edgar P. Richarson, 1948 July 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79897805 Japanese-American painter and printmaker; New York. From the description of [Yasuo Kuniyoshi art work] [graphic] / Yasuo Kuniyoshi, artist and photographer. [ca. 1945-1953] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81603860 Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953) was a Japanese-American painter, printmaker and photogra...

Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981

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Art Historian and first director of the Museum of Modern Art. From the description of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. papers, 1927-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122516895 Correspondence and biographical material collected by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. (1902-1981) on Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). From the description of Barr/Feininger material, 1927-1944, 1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122531411 Museum director, curator, and critic; New York, N.Y. ...

Dudley, Dorothy H.

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American author and translator. From the description of Papers, 1912-1946. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81689572 ...

Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003

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MoMA curator (1935-1969) and honorary trustee (1984-), art advisor, editor. From the description of Dorothy C. Miller papers, 1929-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122569190 Art museum curator; New York, N.Y.; b. Feb. 6, 1904, Hopedale, Mass.; d. July 11, 2003, Greenwich Village, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Dorothy C. Miller, 1970 May 26-1971 Sept. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80691316 Museum curator, art consultant...

National Endowment for the Humanities

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Museum of modern art New York, N.Y.

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Died 1989. From the description of Archives pamphlet file : Titus, Roy V. : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83119924 Art museum; New York, N.Y. From the description of Museum of Modern Art first loan exhibition : November 8th to December 7, 1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557713 d. 2001. From the description of Archives pamphlet file : Matisse, Maria-Gaetana : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unk...

D'Harnoncourt, ReneĢ, 1901-1968

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Director of the Museum of Modern Art, 1949-1968. From the description of Rene d'Harnoncourt papers, 1924-1983, 1940-1968 (bulk). (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122530614 Museum director and authority on American Indian and Mexican arts and crafts. Born 1901 in Vienna, Austria; died 1968 in Long Island, New York. D'Harnoncourt lived in Mexico from 1925 to 1933 and worked as an artist before joining a Mexico City antiques firm in 1927. He compiled and lectu...

Mazo, Sara, 1911-

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Assistant Curator, Department of Museum Collections, The Museum of Modern Art, 1951-1975. From the description of Oral history, 1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122604491 ...