California Revealed

A Project of the California State Library

WRITTEN BY VOLUNTEER ARCHIVIST, ELEANOR UHLINGER

Thanks to two generous grants* from California Revealed, a project of the California State Library, the Museum recently digitized and made available fascinating oral history interviews conducted by Donald R. Anderson and Betty Hoag Lochrie McGlynn with important California photographers, artists, and their families. Anyone may access these interviews from the California Revealed website https:// repository.californiarevealed. org/partner/monterey-museumof-art

The Donald R. Anderson Collection features more than 18 hours of interviews Anderson conducted from 1999-2004 with California photographers, (each of whom are part of the Museum’s collections) about their lives, influences, works, and their philosophy of teaching.

Interview topics include: personal stories; equipment and techniques; the early years of photography on the Monterey Peninsula and in California; Ansel Adams; Yosemite Workshops; the Friends of Photography; the Foundation for Photographic Preservation; and photography programs run through Monterey Peninsula College, University of California Santa Cruz, and more.

Donald R. Anderson (1937-2014) was an accomplished fine-arts photographer. Moving to Monterey in 1998, Anderson taught photography and the history of photography classes at Monterey Peninsula College, California State University Monterey Bay, San Francisco State University, and University of California Santa Cruz Extension. Prior to arriving in Monterey Anderson taught the same subjects at the University of Louisville (Kentucky). Anderson was an active Board Member of and consultant to the Santa Cruz, CA-based Foundation for Photographic Preservation.

The Betty Hoag McGlynn Collection features more than 67 hours of oral history interviews McGlynn conducted in the 1960’s with California artists, their families, and friends, who discussed their lives, influences, and works; personal stories; and the early history and development of the Carmel/ Monterey Peninsula art scene particularly as it grew following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Betty Lochrie Hoag McGlynn (19142002), namesake of the Museum’s Betty Hoag McGlynn Archives, was an art historian, research director, archivist, and author specializing in American and California art

(particularly artists of Northern California). McGlynn began her professional career as a field researcher for the Archives of American Art, interviewing more than 200 Southern California artists who worked on the Federal Arts Project (circa 1933-1946) of the Works Project Administration. (Many of those interviews and their transcripts are available online via the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution). Having developed an interest in art at a young age, McGlynn spent five decades working for museums, historical societies, and art associations in Northern California and as a private consultant. The daughter of artist Elizabeth Lochrie and daughter-in-law of artist Thomas Arnold McGlynn, Ms. McGlynn was a recognized authority on early California art and artists. She authored the book, Carmel Art Association: A History c1987; edited Noticias del Puerto de Monterey: A Quarterly Bulletin of Historic Monterey issued by the Monterey History and Art Association; and was a frequent lecturer and contributor to art magazines, newsletters, and newspapers.

McGlynn’s substantial archive of clippings, correspondence, images, and research notes are available to scholars and researchers by appointment. (See also: Betty Hoag/Betty McGlynn collections located at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution and the Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley).

* This project was supported by California Revealed and administered in California by the State Librarian. The program is made possible by funding from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act.