Oral history, 1991.

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Oral history, 1991.

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Legg recalls her studies at the Art Students League in New York prior to her joining the staff of the Museum Library in 1949. She describes her subsequent positions in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, including her involvement in the Artists Viewings program, and the broad influences of Rene d'Harnoncourt, William S. Lieberman, Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, William S. Rubin, William C. Seitz, and Peter Selz on departmental policy. Legg also discusses various techniques of sculpture installation, specifically in relation to her reinstallation of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden in 1984, and her organization of the exhibitions Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenburg and Sculpture by Matisse.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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