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Interviewee:
McCarthy, Max, 1896-1977  Search this
McCarthy, Jean  Search this
Interviewer:
McChesney, Mary Fuller  Search this
Creator:
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this
Names:
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this
Extent:
25 Pages (Transcript)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Sound recordings
Interviews
Date:
1964 Oct. 15
Scope and Contents:
An interview of Max McCarthy conducted 1964 Oct. 15, by Mary McChesney, for the Archives of American Art New Deal and the Arts Project.
McCarthy's wife Jean is also present during the interview and contributes to it.
Biographical / Historical:
Max McCarthy (1896-1977) was a mosaicist in San Francisco, Calif.
General:
Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 12 min.
The remastered reel was used for digitization. It was returned to Iron Mountain. Original reel missing.
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.
Restrictions:
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
Topic:
Federal aid to the arts  Search this
Mosaicists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews  Search this
Art -- Technique  Search this
Genre/Form:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Identifier:
AAA.mccart64
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9a0d36a88-5d60-4391-8132-bdc855810681
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-mccart64