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Interviewee:

Ames, Arthur Forbes, 1906-1975  Search this

Ames, Jean Goodwin, 1903-1986  Search this

Interviewer:

McGlynn, Betty Hoag  Search this

Creator:

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Names:

Federal Art Project (Calif.)  Search this

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Albro, Maxine, 1903-1966  Search this

Bruton, Helen, 1898-1985  Search this

Bruton, Margaret, 1894-  Search this

Drerup, Karl, 1904-2000  Search this

Extent:

30 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1965 June 9

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Arthur and Jean Goodwin Ames conducted 1965 June 9, by Betty Hoag McGlynn, for the Archives of American Art New Deal and the Arts Project. They speak of their participation in WPA projects at Newport Harbor Union High School, the San Diego County Courthouse, the Jon Lindbergh Junior High School, and the California Federal Building and Loan in Los Angeles; mural, mosaic and tapestry techniques and materials; Karl Drerup and the development of enameling in America; and the effect of the federal art programs on contemporary art. They also describe the work of Maxine Albro and Helen and Margaret Bruton.

Biographical / Historical:

Arthur Forbes (1906-1975) and Jean Goodwin Ames (1903-1986) were mural painters, mosaicists, and tapissiers from Claremont, California.

General:

Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 12 minutes.

Provenance:

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.

Occupation:

Tapissiers -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Mosaics -- California  Search this

Mural painting and decoration -- California  Search this

Tapestry -- California  Search this

Mosaicists -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Muralists -- California -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.ames65

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw917e4630c-6d30-48ab-8a20-45433b71a2aa

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-ames65

Interviewee:

Albro, Maxine, 1903-1966  Search this

Interviewer:

McChesney, Mary Fuller, 1922-2022  Search this

Subject:

Hall, Parker  Search this

Bertrand, Ray  Search this

Gaethke, George  Search this

Neininger, Urban  Search this

O'Higgins, Pablo  Search this

Rivera, Diego  Search this

Stackpole, Ralph  Search this

Zakheim, Bernard Baruch  Search this

Allied Artists Guild  Search this

Federal Art Project (Calif.)  Search this

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Maxine Albro and Parker Hall, 1964 July 27. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women printmakers  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Women muralists  Search this

Theme:

New Deal  Search this

Women  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12350

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213349

AAA_collcode_albro64

Theme:

New Deal

Women

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_213349

Interviewee:

Albro, Maxine, 1903-1966  Search this

Hall, Parker  Search this

Interviewer:

McChesney, Mary Fuller  Search this

Creator:

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Names:

Allied Artists Guild  Search this

Federal Art Project (Calif.)  Search this

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Bertrand, Ray, 1909-  Search this

Gaethke, George, 1898-  Search this

Neininger, Urban  Search this

O'Higgins, Pablo, 1904-  Search this

Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957  Search this

Stackpole, Ralph, 1885-1973  Search this

Zakheim, Bernard Baruch, 1898-1985  Search this

Extent:

44 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1964 July 27

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Maxine Albro and Parker Hall conducted by Mary McChesney on 1964 July 27 for the Archives of American Art.

Albro speaks of her educational background including her work with Paul O'Higgins and as an assistant to Diego Rivera; of fresco and mosaic techniques; her mural at Coit Tower for the Public Works of Art Project; mosaics at San Francisco State College; her relationship with George Gaethke, Urban Neininger, Ralph Stackpole, Bernard Zakheim, and others; the Allied Artists Guild; the influence of the Federal Art Project on her career; and Ray Bertrand's lithography project. Parker Hall comments on his fresco at Coit Tower and other projects. Also present at the interview is Robert McChesney.

Biographical / Historical:

Maxine Albro (1903-1966) was a mural painter and mosaicist in Carmel, California. Her husband, Parker Hall, is a mural painter.

General:

Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hrs., 26 min.

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.

Occupation:

Muralists -- California  Search this

Mosaicists -- California  Search this

Lithographers -- California  Search this

Printmakers -- California  Search this

Painters -- California  Search this

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women printmakers  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Women muralists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.albro64

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9d877d3d1-f351-436b-9923-9fe358a1c582

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-albro64

Creator:

Gaethke, George, 1898-  Search this

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

McChesney, Robert, 1913-2008  Search this

Interviewer:

McChesney, Mary Fuller  Search this

Names:

Federal Art Project (Calif.)  Search this

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Albro, Maxine, 1903-1966  Search this

Bertrand, Ray, 1909-  Search this

Extent:

1 Sound tape reel (Sound recording, 5 in.)

20 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound tape reels

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1964 Sept. 26

Scope and Contents:

An interview of George Gaethke conducted 1964 Sept 26 by Mary McChesney for the Archives of American Art.

Gaethke speaks of his background and art training in California and Chicago; his work on the Coit Tower murals; working on a mosaic under the Federal Art Project; printmaking under the FAP; his post-FAP career. He recalls Maxine Albro and Ray Bertrand.

Biographical / Historical:

Painter, printmaker, mosaicist, mural painter; San Francisco, Calif.

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:

This interview is open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Coit Memorial Tower (San Francisco, Calif.)  Search this

Mural painting and decoration  Search this

Printmakers -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews  Search this

Mosaicists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews  Search this

Muralists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews  Search this

Painters -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.gaethk64

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9159e430b-62ea-4253-aa99-b450e96d2e6b

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-gaethk64

Creator:

California Art Research Project  Search this

Names:

United States. Work Projects Administration  Search this

United States. Works Progress Administration  Search this

Abdy, Rowena Meeks, b. 1887  Search this

Aitken, Robert, 1878-1949  Search this

Albright, Gertrude Partington, 1883-1959  Search this

Albright, Hermann Oliver, 1876-1944  Search this

Albro, Maxine, 1903-1966  Search this

Arnautoff, Victor Mikhail, 1896-1979  Search this

Atkins, Arthur, 1873-1899  Search this

Barnes, Matthew Rackham, 1880-1951  Search this

Bergman, Frank  Search this

Berlandina, Jane, 1898-1962  Search this

Bethers, Ray, 1902-  Search this

Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902  Search this

Boynton, Ray Scepter, 1883-1951  Search this

Bremer, Anne, 1872-1923  Search this

Breuer, Henry Joseph, 1860-1932  Search this

Bruton, Margaret, 1894-  Search this

Bufano, Beniamino, 1898-1970  Search this

Cadenasso, Giuseppe, 1858-1918  Search this

Carlsen, Emil, 1853-1932  Search this

Chin, Chee, b. 1896  Search this

Cravath, Ruth, 1902-1986  Search this

Cummings, M. Earl, b. 1876  Search this

Cuneo, Rinaldo, 1877-1939  Search this

Dickman, Charles John, 1863-1943  Search this

Dixon, Maynard, 1875-1946  Search this

Forbes, Helen, 1891-1945  Search this

Fortune, Ephemia Charlton, 1885-1969  Search this

Gaw, William A., 1891-1973  Search this

Grant, Charles Henry, 1866-1939  Search this

Hailey, Gene  Search this

Hamlin, Edith  Search this

Hansen, Armin C. (Armin-Carl), 1886-1957  Search this

Hansen, Herman W., 1854-1924  Search this

Hesthal, William, 1908-  Search this

Hill, Thomas, 1829-1908  Search this

Hobart, Clark, b. 1880?  Search this

Howard, Charles, 1899-1978  Search this

Howard, John Galen, 1864-1931  Search this

Howard, John Langley, 1902-  Search this

Howard, Robert Boardman, 1896-1983  Search this

Jorgensen, Christian, 1860-1935  Search this

Joullin, Amedee, 1862-1917  Search this

Keith, William, 1838-1911  Search this

Kent, Adaline Dutton, 1900-1957  Search this

Kingman, Dong, 1911-  Search this

Labaudt, Lucien, 1880-1943  Search this

Mackey, Spencer, 1880-1958  Search this

Macky, Constance L., b. 1883  Search this

Martinez, Xavier, 1869-1943  Search this

Mathews, Arthur Frank, 1860-1945  Search this

McComas, Francis John, 1874-1938  Search this

Mora, Joseph Jacinto, 1876-1947  Search this

Moya del Pino, Jose, 1891-1969  Search this

Nahl, Arthur Charles, b. 1878  Search this

Nahl, Charles Christian, 1818-1878  Search this

Nahl, Hugo Wilhelm Arthur, 1833-1889  Search this

Nahl, Perham Wilhelm, 1869-1935  Search this

Nahl, Virgil Theodore, 1876-1930  Search this

Obata, Chiura  Search this

Oldfield, Otis, 1890-1969  Search this

Peixotto, Ernest, b. 1869  Search this

Peters, Charles Rollo, 1862-1928  Search this

Piazzoni, Gottardo, 1872-1945  Search this

Pommer, Julius, 1895?-1945  Search this

Poole, Horatio Nelson, b. 1883  Search this

Post, George, 1906-1997  Search this

Puccinelli, Dorothy Wagner, 1901-  Search this

Puccinelli, Raimondo, 1904-  Search this

Putnam, Arthur, 1873-1930  Search this

Randolph, Lee F., b. 1880  Search this

Raphael, Joseph, 1869-1950  Search this

Rexroth, André, Mrs., 1902-  Search this

Richardson, Mary Curtis, 1848-1931  Search this

Rix, Julian  Search this

Robinson, Charles Dorman, 1847-1933  Search this

Rosenthal, Toby Edward, ca. 1848-1917  Search this

Sandona, Matteo, b. 1883  Search this

Sargeant, Geneve Rixford, 1868-1957  Search this

Scherbakoff, Sergey John, b. 1894  Search this

Schnier, Jacques, 1898-1988  Search this

Sekido, Yoshida, b. 1894  Search this

Sheridan, Joseph Marsh, b. 1897  Search this

Sparks, Will, 1862-1937  Search this

Stackpole, Ralph, 1885-1973  Search this

Tavernier, Jules, 1844-1889  Search this

Tilden, Douglas, 1860-1935  Search this

Tojetti, Domenico, 1807-1892  Search this

Van Sloun, Frank J., 1879-1938  Search this

Welch, Thaddeus, 1844-1919  Search this

Williams, Virgil Macey, 1830-1886  Search this

Withrow, Evelyn Almond, 1858-1928  Search this

Wores, Theodore, 1858-1939  Search this

Zakheim, Bernard Baruch, 1898-1985  Search this

Extent:

20 Volumes ((on 2 microfilm reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Volumes

Place:

United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945 -- California -- San Francisco

United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- California -- San Francisco

Date:

1936-1937

Scope and Contents:

Twenty volumes of the publication, CALIFORNIA ART RESEARCH, containing monographs on artists whose principal residence was San Francisco.

REEL NDA/Cal 1: Artists include Robert Aitken, Arthur Atkins, Albert Bierstadt, Ray Boynton, Anne Bremer, Henry J. Breuer, Giuseppe Cadenasso, Emil Carlsen, M. Earl Cummings, Rinaldo Cuneo, Charles Dickman, Maynard Dixon, Charles Grant, Armin Hansen, H. W. Hansen, Thomas Hill, Christian Jorgensen, Amedee Joullin, William Keith, Constance Macky, Xavier Martinez, Arthur Mathews, Francis McComas, Arthur C. Nahl, Charles C. Nahl, Hugo W. A. Nahl, Perham W. Nahl, Virgil T. Nahl, Ernest Peixotto, Charles R. Peters, Gottardo Piazzoni, Horatio Nelson Poole, Arthur Putnam, Joseph Raphael, Mary C. Richardson, Julian Rix, Charles D. Robinson, Toby Rosenthal, Will Sparks,Jules Tavernier, Douglas Tilden, Domenico Tojetti, Frank Van Sloun, Thaddeus Welch, Virgil Williams, Evelyn A. Withrow, and Theodore Wores.

REEL NDA/Cal 2: Artists include Rowena M. Abdy, Gertrude Albright, Hermann O. Albright, Maxine Albro, Victor Arnautoff, Matthew R. Barne s, Frank Bergman, Jane Berlandina, Ray Bethers, Beniamino Bufano, Margaret Bruton, Chee Chin, Ruth Cravath, Helen Forbes, Euphemia C. Fortune, William Gaw, Edith Hamlin, William Hesthal, Clark Hobart, Charles Howard, John G. Howard, John L. Howard, Robert Boardman Howard, Adaline Kent, Dong Kingman, Lucien Labaudt, Spencer Mackey, Jo Mora, Jose Moya del Pino, Chiura Obata, Otis Oldfield, Julius Pommer, George B. Post, Dorothy W. Puccinelli, Raimondo Puccinelli, Lee F. Randolph, Andree Rexroth, Matteo Sandona, Geneve R. Sargeant, Sergey J. Scherbakoff,Jacques Schnier, Yoshida Sekido, Joseph M. Sheridan,Ralph Stackpole, and Bernard Zakheim.

Biographical / Historical:

Publication of the Works Progress Administration; San Francisco, Calif. Sponsored by Dr. Walter Heil of the M.H. de Young Museum. Was originally a joint project of the WPA-Statistical projects division and the WPA-Federal Art Project in order to disseminate information about artists and art in the San Francisco region.

Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):

San Francisco, WPA Project 2874, 1936-1937.

Provenance:

Provenance unknown.

Restrictions:

The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

Occupation:

Artists -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Topic:

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Federal aid to the public welfare -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Art and state -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.caliarp

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw91151550c-b4d7-4c02-b025-d4bd657f78fb

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-caliarp

Author:

Albro, Maxine 1903-1966  Search this

Baumann, Karl 1911-1984  Search this

Tchkotoua, Zourab  Search this

Rotunda Galleries  Search this

Subject:

Albro, Maxine 1903-1966  Search this

Baumann, Karl 1911-1984  Search this

Tchkotoua, Zourab  Search this

Physical description:

[8] p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Type:

Books

Exhibitions

Date:

1945

Call number:

ND237.A33 A4 1945

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_830906