Emily Thornton Calvo Oral History

Object number2018.001.0052

Date05/21/2018

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Emily Thornton Calvo

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumBorn digital (.wav file)

Dimensions39 Minutes

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DescriptionAudio oral history interview with Emily Thornton Calvo. Calvo is the daughter of the late Chicago artist Gregory Thornton, whose works included notable paintings featuring the Kennedy brothers and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Calvo and her father were both civil rights activists in the 1960s, and Thornton sold art prints at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. Interview conducted on May 21, 2018, by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 39 minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

Emily Thornton Calvo is no stranger to oral history. Her late father, artist Gregory Thornton, kept a detailed audio diary from 1977 until his death in 2000. Approximately 10,000 hours of recollections were later donated to the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University in Bloomington. In recent years, Emily has donated her time transcribing a number of her father's recordings and, as of June 2018, is at work on a book about his life as an artist and activist. - Stephen Fagin, Curator