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Type:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Place of publication, production, or execution:
Washington (State)
Physical Description:
26 Pages, Transcript
General Note:
Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 42 min.
Access Note / Rights:
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
Summary:
An interview of Robert Engard conducted 1965 November 26, by Dorothy Bestor, for the Archives of American Art New Deal and the Arts Project. Engard discusses the Spokane Art Center where he taught lithography in 1939 and 1941.
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Robert Oliver Engard, 1965 November 26. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Biography Note:
Robert Oliver Engard (1915-2003) was a painter and printmaker from Spokane, Washington.
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
