Digitized audio recording of an oral history interview with Francis J. Newton, conducted around 1990. This recording is one of 10 interviews and conversations about the Portland Art Museum that were conducted or gathered by Robert Peirce, who was then the museum's librarian, from approximately 1990 to 1993. In this interview, Newton, who was director of the Portland Art Museum from 1960 to 1975, discusses his work in that role, as well as the history of the museum.