Oral history interview with Elizabeth Mongan, 1989 June 22 and 23.

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Oral history interview with Elizabeth Mongan, 1989 June 22 and 23.

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=aElizabeth Mongan became in 1937 the first curator of the print collection of collector Lessing Rosenwald. When Rosenwald gave his collections to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress in 1943, she was appointed the National Gallery's curator of prints, working both in Washington and with Rosenwald at his home in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania for the next twenty years. Mongan described her early training with Paul Sachs and travels in Europe, including a meeting with Bernard Berenson. She recalled Rosenwald and the dealers he worked with and bought from and noted her activities preparing the collection for Rosenwald's Alverthorpe Gallery and for transfer to the National Gallery and Library of Congress. She remembered prominent Gallery staff members and shared recollections of work there.

4 sound cassettes (ca. 200 minutes)

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