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Type:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Place of publication, production, or execution:
California
Physical Description:
37 Pages, Transcript
General Note:
Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 27 min.
Access Note / Rights:
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
Summary:
An interview of Helen and Margaret Bruton conducted by Lewis Ferbraché on 1964 December 4 for the Archives of American art New Deal and the Arts Project.
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Helen and Margaret Bruton, 1964 December 4. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
Transcript available on line at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/bruton64.htm
Biography Note:
Helen Bruton is a painter, mosaicist and mural painter. Margaret Bruton is a painter and mosaicist.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
This interview conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
