The Andrew Oliver and Diana Buitron-Oliver research materials collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a small number of articles, maps, newspaper clippings, invitations, receipts and correspondence compiled and used by Dr. Diana Buitron-Oliver and Dr. Andrew Oliver during their careers as scholars of the ancient Greek world. The date range is general range is 1942-2007. These materials can be considered a small sample of the type of records amassed during their academic careers.
Dates
- 1942-2007
Creator
- Oliver, Andrew, Dr. (Person)
- Buitron-Oliver, Diana, Dr. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Some material may be copyrighted or restricted. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other case restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the collections.
Biographical / Historical
Diana Buitron-Oliver (1947-2002), an expert in the art and archaeology of Ancient Greece, was born in 1947 in Ecuador. She received a BA from Smith College and an MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she studied the works of the Greek vase-painter Douris, about whom she would go on to become one of the world's leading authorities. After beginning her career at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, she served as Curator of the Greek and Roman Department at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland from 1977 to 1984. Dr. Buitron was a dedicated teacher as well as scholar, and was part of the adjunct faculty at Georgetown University beginning in 1988, teaching Greek art. She served as the curator of two exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art: The Human Figure in Early Greek Art and The Greek Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy, the Fifth Century B.C. Dr. Buitron also curated several other exhibitions, including The Odyssey and Ancient Art at Bard College and The Birth of Democracy at the National Archives. Dr. Buitron worked in Cyprus from 1978-1982, directing the excavations of the archaic Greek Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates at Kourion. She and her husband, Drew Oliver, served professional organizations such as the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia, and the Archaeological Institute of America. Diana Buitron-Oliver died in 2002, in Washington, DC.
Andrew Oliver received an AB from Harvard University and an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He has held curatorial and directorial positions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the John D. Rockefeller III Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Textile Museum in Washington, DC. In addition, he has participated in archaeological excavations and has published widely on ancient decorative arts. In 1978, he married Diana Buitron who shared his passion for travel and the ancient world. In 2009, in memory of his late wife, he donated a collection of materials they had gathered in three decades of research and scholarship on the ancient Mediterranean world.
Extent
.75 Linear Feet (1 document box and 1 slim document box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection contains a small number of articles, maps, newspaper clippings, invitations, receipts and correspondence compiled and used by Dr. Diana Buitron-Oliver and Dr. Andrew Oliver during their careers as scholars of the ancient Greek world. The date range is general range is 1942-2007. These materials can be considered a small sample of the type of records amassed during their academic careers.
Arrangement
Arranged in no particular order.
Physical Location
Materials may be stored off-site, and may require additional retrieval time. Please contact the Special Collections Research Center for more information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Dr. Andrew Oliver, 2009.
Processing Information
These records arrived with the larger book donation made by Andrew Oliver in 2009. Because of their non-monograph status these records aer housed in Special Collections. During the processing of this collection secondary source materials were removed from the collection. What remains fo the collection should be primary type records related to their academic careers and should be considered examples of the type of records they likely created and received in much larger volume.
- Archaeology Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Architecture -- Classical Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Architecture -- Greece Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Art, Greek Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Carthage (Extinct City) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hill, Dorothy Kent
- Pottery, Greek Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Syria Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Andrew Oliver and Diana Buitron-Oliver research materials collection , 1942-2007
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Special Collections Research Center, The George Washington University
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Research Center, The George Washington University Repository