Museum curator : Agnes Mongan : oral history transcript / interviewed by Taina Rikala de Noriega 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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Museum curator : Agnes Mongan : oral history transcript / interviewed by Taina Rikala de Noriega 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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Mongan discusses her Catholic background; study at Bryn Mawr, Smith, and Harvard, Fogg Museum; interest in drawings, and curatorial positions at the Fogg, 1929-1975, director positions, 1951-1971; issue of discrimination against women at Harvard; Paul Sachs, Bernard Berenson; travels and residencies, including Timken Art Gallery, American Academy in Rome; Jakob Rosenberg, Arthur Pope, John Coolidge, Edward Waldo Forbes, Edward M.M. Warburg, and other scholars and collectors; basis for and importance of judgments of quality.

Transcripot: 1 v. (xii, 246 leaves) : port. ; 28 cm.

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