Oral history interview with Thomas Tibbs

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Oral history interview with Thomas Tibbs

1996 March 19-May 9

An interview of Thomas Tibbs conducted 1996 March 19-May 9, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, at the artist's home, in Fallbrook, California.

Sound recording: 2 sound cassettes (120 min.) : analog.Transcript: 49 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8212680

Archives of American Art

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American Crafts Council. Museum of Contemporary Crafts

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Tibbs, Thomas S., 1917-

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Thomas Tibbs (1917- ) is a museum director and educator from San Diego, Calif. Tibbs was founding director (1956-1960) of the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York and the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art (1968), now Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, where he promoted an interest in crafts, their collection and exhibition as art. He was director of the new museum in Huntington, W.V., where he initated a crafts competition as a means to "fill the museum." His ...

Karlstrom, Paul J.

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Karlstrom: Director and area collector of the Archives of American Art, San Francisco office. Siegriest: painter and graphic artist; Oakland, California. Oliveira: painter and teacher; Stanford, California. Keinholz: assemblage artist; California and Idaho. Wood: Ceramist, Calif. From the description of [Photographs of California artists]. 1976-1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220199675 ...