Reminiscences of Margret Craver : oral history, 1987.

Biographical Note

Jeweler; interviewee married Charles Withers.

Scope and Contents

Childhood and early education in Kansas; University of Kansas, 1925-29; development as an artist; Greenwich house, New York City, 1929; elementary school teacher in Kansas, 1930-32; Art professor, School of the Museum Art Association, 1932; studies in Stockholm, 1935; pilot shop work with occupational therapists, 1944; teacher at Handy and Harman, 1947-50; return to commission work in Massachusetts, 1950; techniques of jewelry design, metal smithing, enameling; impressions of Baron Eric Fleming.

Subjects

• Art--Study and teaching.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Jewelers--Interviews.
• Jewelry making.
• Occupational therapy.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Polsky, Richard M., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Withers, Margret Craver, 1907---Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1988.