Arthur Magill Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0155
The papers are primarily from 1980, with some correspondence beginning in 1976, and concern a controversy regarding the leadership of former Greenville County Museum of Art director Jack Morris. The collection includes transcripts, newspaper clippings, magazine articles and correspondence.
Arthur Magill was born in Philadelphia in 1907. In 1929, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College and inherited his family's textile operation, Her Majesty Industries, Inc., in 1934. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. He retired from industry in 1976. Since his retirement, Mr. Magill has received wide recognition for a number of activities, including his directorships of Friends of American Art in Religion and the Committee for Monetary Research and Education. He also served as president of the Greenville County Art Association and as a member of the South Carolina Museum Commission. He received an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree from Furman University in 1976. He is married to the former Alice Claire Hollingsworth of Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Magill purchased the Joseph E. Levine Collection of twenty-six paintings by Andrew Wyeth which were on display at the Greenville County Musuem of Art during the 1970s-1980s. This collection was later sold.
1.5 Cubic Feet (3 boxes)
English
The collection is arranged aphabetically.
The material in this collection, accession 87-60, was donated by Arthur Magill in 1987 in response to the efforts of Bryan McKown, Project Archivist, as part of the South Carolina Textile Research Resources Project. The project was funded in part by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Manuscript Archivist Karen Ellenberg processed the collection. Jen Bingham and student Kristi Roberts made minor revisions and entered the register in Archivists' Toolkit in 2010.
Part of the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Repository