Oral history interview with Maria Mallus, 1989 January 31 and February 1.

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Oral history interview with Maria Mallus, 1989 January 31 and February 1.

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=aMaria Mallus was secretary to Alexander Reed of the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust from 1938 to 1941. She joined the staff of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. in 1941 as secretary to Sterling Eagleton and later to Donald Shepard, returning with him to the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust in 1943 and remaining there until 1948, when she retired to raise a family. She rejoined the Gallery's staff in 1967, retiring in 1992. Mallus described her background and experiences at the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, noting many of its prominent personalities and its working environment. She recalled many of the Gallery's early employees, especially Donald Shepard who was intimately involved in the Gallery's establishment. She contrasted her early experiences with those she encountered when she rejoined the staff of the National Gallery in 1967.

2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 minutes)

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Shepard, Donald F.

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Reed, Alexander P.

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A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust

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The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, founded by Andrew W. Mellon in 1930, contributed funding to a variety of organizations, insitutions and programs until it dissolved in 1980. In its fifty year life the Trust made nearly $200,000,000 in contributions, including over $25,000,000 in termination grants at the time of its dissolution in 1980. On the national level, the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust provided funding and support to The National Gallery of Art, the Smith...

Mallus, Maria,

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Ritchie, Annette

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Art museum; Washington, D.C. From the description of National Gallery of Art exhibition catalog, 1910. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553233 ...