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Yale Center for British Art oral history collection

  • Call Number

    S 021

  • Holdings

    Accessible in the Study Room [ Request ]

  • Title(s)

    Yale Center for British Art oral history collection

  • Date

    2017 2025

  • Extent

    56 gigabytes

  • Classification

    Archives and Manuscripts

  • Conditions Governing Access

    This collection is open for research, although some interviews may be restricted. The finding aid includes links to stream most interviews online via Yale Library's AV access system, Aviary. Yale users can login to Aviary using their Yale University ID, to stream these interview. Other users are able to request access to interviews directly through Aviary. For access instructions, and to request transcripts of an interview, please contact the Archives.

  • Conditions Governing Use

    Items in this collection are protected by copyright and/or related rights.

    Copyright has been transferred to Yale University. Materials for which copyright has been transferred to Yale may be used for non-commercial purposes without seeking permission from Yale University as the copyright holder. For other uses of these materials, please contact ycba.archives@yale.edu and/or ycba.imaging@yale.edu.

  • Biographical/Historical

    The Yale Center for British Art oral history collection features interviews with a large variety of individuals who have been associated with the YCBA in their lifetimes. This includes individuals associated with gift by Paul Mellon to establish the YCBA in 1966, people who were actively involved with the original design, implementation, management, and opening of the museum in 1977, architects involved in the 2015 YCBA conservation project, undergraduate student guides at the YCBA, as well as former YCBA curators, directors, librarians, registrars, museum assistants, staff, community members, and former students. The interviews are conducted by Yale Center for British Art staff members, Graduate Museum Fellows (GMFs), and New Haven Promise interns. The GMFs in particular have made substantial additions to the collection.

  • Scope and Content

    The Oral History Collection is comprised of audio files, video files, and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with individuals who have contributed to the history of the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA). These individuals include former staff, Yale professors, and those who worked closely with the YCBA’s benefactor and founder, Paul Mellon (1907–1999, Yale ’29), and with the YCBA’s principal architect, Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974). The interviews range from 2017 to the present. The program is active, meaning the collection will continue to grow. Interviews are organized by interviewee last names and year of interview. Interviews vary from one interview per interviewee to a series of interviews with one individual. Restricted interviews are not listed in the finding aid. Questions regarding interviews may be sent to the YCBA Archives Department.

  • Arrangement

    The collection is arranged alphabetically by last name of the interview subject.

  • Genre

    Exhibitions

  • Subject Terms

    Art
    Art museum curators
    Art museum directors
    Art, British
    College art museums

  • Subject Period

    20th Century

  • Associated Places

    United States

  • Associated People/Groups

    Clement, Constance
    Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974
    Prown, Jules David, 1930-
    Robinson, Duncan
    Yale Center for British Art

  • Collection PDF

    https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11824.pdf

  • Finding Aid

    https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/resources/11824

  • Metadata Cloud URL

    https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/resources/11824?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1

  • IIIF Manifest

    JSON

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