Art historian : Craig Hugh Smyth : oral history transcript / interviewed by Taina Rikala de Noriega, Thomas F. Reese, and Richard Cándida Smith. Completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Human

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Art historian : Craig Hugh Smyth : oral history transcript / interviewed by Taina Rikala de Noriega, Thomas F. Reese, and Richard Cándida Smith. Completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994.

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Smyth discusses his education at Hotchkiss and Princeton; experiences and influences at Princeton during the 1930s; teaching and directorship at Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and comparison to Princeton and Harvard; directorship of the Villa i Tatti; work at Frick Collection and National Gallery; World War II military service with Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives section; discussions of theory, museums v. academic world.

Transcript: 1 v. (xiii, 391 leaves) : port. ; 29 cm.

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