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Creator:

Callahan, Kenneth L., 1905-1986  Search this

Subject:

Tobey, Mark  Search this

Group of Twelve (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Type:

Sketchbooks

Citation:

Kenneth Callahan papers, 1932-1963. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Theme:

Sketches & Sketchbooks  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)7298

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)209451

AAA_collcode_callkenn

Theme:

Sketches & Sketchbooks

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_209451

Creator:

Graves, Morris, 1910-2001  Search this

Subject:

Mills, Merita  Search this

Graves, Celia  Search this

Group of Twelve (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Citation:

Morris Graves papers, 1932-1963. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8245

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210416

AAA_collcode_gravmorp

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210416

Creator:

Tokita, Kamekichi, 1897-1948  Search this

Subject:

Callahan, Kenneth  Search this

Tokita, Shokichi  Search this

Tokita, Elsie  Search this

Art Institute of Seattle  Search this

Seattle Art Museum  Search this

Hotel Cadillac (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Henry Art Gallery  Search this

Public Works of Art Project  Search this

Minidoka Relocation Center  Search this

Group of Twelve (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Type:

Photograph albums

Photographs

Sketches

Scrapbooks

Diaries

Citation:

Kamekichi Tokita Papers, circa 1900-circa 2010, bulk 1900-1948. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans  Search this

Asian American art  Search this

Asian American artists  Search this

Japanese American art  Search this

Japanese American artists  Search this

Asian American painters  Search this

Art, American -- Northwestern States  Search this

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Washington (State) -- Seattle  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Northwestern States  Search this

Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Diaries  Search this

Theme:

Asian American  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)10444

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213849

AAA_collcode_tokikame

Theme:

Asian American

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_213849

Interviewee:

Callahan, Kenneth L., 1905-1986  Search this

Interviewer:

Prince, Sue Ann  Search this

Subject:

Anderson, Guy  Search this

Graves, Morris  Search this

Tobey, Mark  Search this

Seattle Art Museum  Search this

Group of Twelve (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Kenneth Callahan, 1982 October 27-December 19. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Artists -- Northwestern States -- Interviews  Search this

Art, Modern -- Northwestern States  Search this

Art, American -- Northwestern States  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12975

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212430

AAA_collcode_callah82

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_212430

Interviewee:

Patterson, Viola, 1898-1984  Search this

Interviewer:

Kingsbury, Martha, 1941-  Search this

Subject:

Archipenko, Alexander  Search this

Orozco, José Clemente  Search this

Patterson, Ambrose  Search this

Rivera, Diego  Search this

Group of Twelve (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Viola Patterson, 1982 Oct. 22-29. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Artists -- Northwestern States -- Interviews  Search this

Art, Modern -- Northwestern States  Search this

Art, American -- Northwestern States  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Theme:

Women  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12618

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212443

AAA_collcode_patter82

Theme:

Women

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_212443

Interviewee:

Patterson, Viola, 1898-1984  Search this

Interviewer:

Kingsbury, Martha, 1941-  Search this

Names:

Group of Twelve (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Archipenko, Alexander, 1887-1964  Search this

Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949  Search this

Patterson, Ambrose, 1877-1966  Search this

Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957  Search this

Extent:

57 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1982 Oct. 22-29

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Viola Patterson conducted 1982 Oct. 22-29, by Martha Kingsbury, for the Archives of American Art's Northwest Oral History Project, in the artist's home in Seattle, Wash.

Patterson speaks of her education; family background; her early interest in art; studying at the University of Washington art department; the influence of Japanese artists; teaching art to children; her husband, Ambrose Patterson, and his life and career; and working on murals with Jose Clement Orozco and Diego Rivera. She recalls Alexander Archipenko. Patterson was a member of the Seattle area progressive artists' collective known as the "Group of Twelve."

Biographical / Historical:

Viola Patterson (1898-1984) was a painter from Seattle, Wash.

General:

Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hrs., 33 min.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives' Northwest Oral History Project, begun in 1982 to document the Northwest artistic community through interviews with painters, sculptors, craftsmen, educators, curators, and others, in Oregon, Washington and Montana.

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Occupation:

Painters -- Washington (State) -- Seattle  Search this

Topic:

Artists -- Northwestern States -- Interviews  Search this

Art, Modern -- Northwestern States  Search this

Art, American -- Northwestern States  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.patter82

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw90149e58a-5439-4922-aadb-4c5546e44592

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-patter82

Interviewee:

Callahan, Kenneth, 1905-1986  Search this

Interviewer:

Prince, Sue Ann  Search this

Names:

Group of Twelve (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Seattle Art Museum  Search this

Anderson, Guy, 1906-1998  Search this

Graves, Morris, 1910-  Search this

Tobey, Mark  Search this

Extent:

75 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1982 October 27-December 19

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Kenneth Callahan conducted 1982 October 27-1982 December 19, by Sue Ann Kendall, for the Archives of American Art's Northwest Oral History Project.

Callahan speaks of his childhood in Montana; his education; working as an illustrator; early shows of his work; mural commissions; the Northwest arts community, particularly Morris Graves, Guy Anderson and Mark Tobey; changes in his subject matter and interests; the increasing abstraction in his painting; the fire in his studio; his relationship with the Seattle Art Museum, where he worked as a curator for 20 years; collectors he has known; experimenting with other media; and contemporary art and its future.

Biographical / Historical:

Kenneth Callahan (1905-1986) was a painter, muralist, writer, and curator from Long Beach, Washington.

General:

Originally recorded on 7 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 11 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hr., 27 min.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives' Northwest Oral History Project, begun in 1982 to document the Northwest artistic community through interviews with painters, sculptors, craftsmen, educators, curators, and others, in Oregon, Washington and Montana.

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Occupation:

Painters -- Washington (State) -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Artists -- Northwestern States -- Interviews  Search this

Art, Modern -- Northwestern States  Search this

Art, American -- Northwestern States  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.callah82

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f4fd83e5-f7a4-412d-add2-aa314479d613

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-callah82

Interviewee:

Fields, Earl T., 1900-  Search this

Interviewer:

Bestor, Dorothy K., 1913-  Search this

Subject:

Federal Art Project (Wash.)  Search this

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Group of Twelve (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Earl T. Fields, 1965 June 9. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Painters -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Interviews  Search this

Photographers -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Interviews  Search this

Theme:

Photography  Search this

New Deal  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)12273

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213461

AAA_collcode_fields65

Theme:

Photography

New Deal

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_213461

Interviewee:

Fields, Earl T., 1900-  Search this

Interviewer:

Bestor, Dorothy K., 1913-  Search this

Creator:

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Names:

Federal Art Project (Wash.)  Search this

Group of Twelve (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Extent:

1 Sound tape reel (Sound recordings, 7 in.)

9 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound tape reels

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1965 June 9

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Earl T. Fields conducted 1965 June 9, by Dorothy Bestor, for the Archives of American Art. Speaks of his work for the Federal Art Project and later, as the official photographer for the Seattle Art Museum. Fields mentions the work of his father, Grant Wood. He discusses the friction within the WPA and criticisms of the WPA.

Biographical / Historical:

Earl T. Fields (1900- ) was a painter and photographer from Seattle, Wash. Fields was a member of the Seattle area progressive artists' collective known as the "Group of Twelve."

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.

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Painters -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Interviews  Search this

Photographers -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.fields65

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw975a23989-f677-467b-8cb9-8b5d15408b76

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-fields65

Interviewee:

Callahan, Kenneth L., 1905-1986  Search this

Interviewer:

Bestor, Dorothy K., 1913-  Search this

Subject:

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Group of Twelve (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Kenneth Callahan, 1965 March 9. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Theme:

New Deal  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)11981

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213354

AAA_collcode_callah65

Theme:

New Deal

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_213354

Creator:

Tokita, Kamekichi  Search this

Names:

Art Institute of Seattle  Search this

Group of Twelve (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Henry Art Gallery  Search this

Hotel Cadillac (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Minidoka Relocation Center  Search this

Public Works of Art Project  Search this

Seattle Art Museum  Search this

Callahan, Kenneth, 1905-1986  Search this

Tokita, Elsie  Search this

Tokita, Shokichi  Search this

Extent:

1.5 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photograph albums

Photographs

Sketches

Scrapbooks

Diaries

Date:

circa 1900-circa 2010

bulk 1900-1948

Summary:

The personal papers of Seattle area painter Kamekichi Tokita (1897-1948) measure 1.5 linear feet and date from circa 1900 to circa 2010 with the bulk of the material dating from circa 1910 to 1948. The papers include biographical materials, including documents about the closing of the War Relocation Authority's Minidoka Camp in Idaho; correspondence; three diaries written in Japanese documenting Tokita's war time experiences and forced relocation to Minidoka, two earlier notebooks, also written in Japanese, and scattered notes; a few personal business records; printed materials; one scrapbook; sketches; and one family photograph album.

Scope and Contents:

The personal papers of Seattle area painter Kamekichi Tokita (1897-1948) measure 1.5 linear feet and date from circa 1900 to circa 2010 with the bulk of the material dating from circa 1910 to 1948. The papers include biographical materials, including documents about the closing of the War Relocation Authority's Minidoka Camp in Idaho; correspondence; three diaries written in Japanese documenting Tokita's war time experiences and forced relocation to Minidoka, two earlier notebooks, also written in Japanese, and scattered notes; a few personal business records; printed materials; one scrapbook; sketches; and one family photograph album.

Biographical materials include a file on the Public Works of Art Project, a file on the War Relocation Authority and the closing of the Minidoka incarceration camp, an immigration document, and an essay on Tokita written by Shokichi and Elsie Tokita.

Correspondence is primarily professional in nature and concerns exhibitions at the Seattle Museum of Art (previously the Art Institute of Seattle) and other topics. Correspondents include Kenneth Callahan, Henry Gallery, the Seattle Art Museum, and others.

Tokita's writings consist of three diaries, two notebooks, and scattered general writings, most of which are in Japanese. The diaries were kept during World War II and document the family's incarceration at the Minidoka Relocation Camp in Idaho. Included is a transcript of the diaries which were translated from prewar to modern Japanese by Haruo Takasugi and from modern Japanese to English by Naomi Kusunoki-Martin.

Scattered business records include a patent application, records from the Cadillac Hotel, and a claim filed through the Department of Justice. A few published books in English and Japanese are about art and religion. Also found are exhibition catalogs for shows in which Tokita participated and clippings. There is one mixed media scrapbook about Tokita's exhibitions.

Artwork consists of unsigned pencil and watercolor sketches by Tokita. There is also a family photo album containing snapshots and portraits of the Tokita family and friends.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as 8 series:

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1934-1985 (Box 1; 5 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1920-1944 (Box 1; 8 folders)

Series 3: Diaries and Writings, 1923-circa 1950 (Box 1; 0.2 linear feet)

Series 4: Personal Business Records, 1928-1950 (Box 1; 3 folders)

Series 5: Printed Material, circa 1910-1940 (Box 1-3; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 6: Scrapbook, 1929-1933 (Box 2-3; 0.2 linear feet)

Series 7: Artwork, circa 1910-1940s (Box 2-3; 0.1 linear feet)

Series 8: Photograph Album, circa 1900-1930 (Box 2; 0.2 linear feet)

Biographical / Historical:

Kamekichi Tokita (1897-1948) was a Japanese American painter and businessman who emigrated from Japan in 1919 and settled in Seattle, Washington. Tokita was a member of the Seattle area progressive artists' collective known as the "Group of Twelve" and widely exhibited his artwork throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Kamekichi Tokita was born in Shizouka City, Japan and immigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-two. He settled in the Japantown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington where he opened the Noto Sign Company with business partner Kenjiro Nomura. Nomura was also an artist and encouraged Tokita's interest in oil painting. They both used the sign shop as their studio after-hours. In 1936, the Noto Sign Company closed and Tokita took over management of the Cadillac Hotel, although he continued to paint commercial signs. Tokita married Haruko Suzuki in 1932 and together they had eight children.

As a child in Japan, Tokita studied calligraphy in China. Although he attended a few art school classes in in the U.S. and went on weekend painting trips with Nomura and other Seattle artists, Tokita is considered to be a largely self-trained artist. Support and recognition came from Dorothy V. Morrison of the Henry Gallery at the University of Washington who wrote to Tokita to inquire whether a "group of Japanese artists in the city" would be interested in exhibiting their work. Although the exhibition of Japanese artists did not happen, Tokita later loaned paintings to the gallery for inclusion in an exhibition sponsored by the American Federation of Arts. Throughout the late 1920s and 1930s Tokita exhibited widely in the Seattle area. In 1935, the Seattle Daily Times touted the work of Tokita and other painters in the "Group of Twelve" that also included Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, Walter F. Isaacs, and Ambrose and Viola Patterson, among others. In 1942, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Kamekichi Tokita and his family (five children at the time), along with the approximately 120,000 Japanese and Japanese American citizens living on the West Coast, were ordered under President Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 to be forcibly removed to one of several incarceration camps. For the first six months of their imprisonment, the family lived at a temporary Civilian Assembly Center in Puyallup, Washington. They were transferred to the Minidoka Relocation Camp in Hunt, Idaho where they remained until their release in 1945. While incarcerated in Minidoka, Tokita worked as a sign painter and continued to privately paint, using whatever materials he could find, including beaver board. His work was featured in art shows at the camp. Many of his camp scenes are now lost or were given away.

At the end of World War II, Tokita and his family (now seven children) moved back to the Seattle-area. Unable to find housing, the Tokitas lived at a Japanese language school until Tokita was able to re-establish his business. During this period he painted very little. In 1946 Tokita and his wife purchased the New Lucky Hotel in the Chinatown area of Seattle. Shortly thereafter, Tokita fell ill and died in 1948. Many of his works are believed to have been destroyed or lost. Some of his work remains, however, and is among the permanent collections of the Seattle Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum.

Note: Much of this biographical note was taken from "A Biographical Resume" written by Shokichi and Elsie Y. Tokita.

Separated Materials:

A watercolor painting on paper by Kamekichi Tokita, Untitled (Still Life), 9 x 12 in. was transferred to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2012.

Provenance:

The Kamekichi Tokita papers were donated by his son, Shokichi Tokita in 1990. He donated a third and final diary in 2017. They were collected as part of the Archives of American Art Northwest Asian American project in Seattle, Washington.

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Painters -- Washington (State) -- Seattle  Search this

Topic:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans  Search this

Asian American art  Search this

Asian American artists  Search this

Japanese American art  Search this

Japanese American artists  Search this

Asian American painters  Search this

Art, American -- Northwestern States  Search this

Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Washington (State) -- Seattle  Search this

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Northwestern States  Search this

Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Diaries  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photograph albums

Photographs

Sketches

Scrapbooks

Diaries

Citation:

Kamekichi Tokita papers, circa 1900-circa 2010, bulk circa 1910-1948. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool. Funding for the digitization of this collection was provided by the Lichtenstein Endowment and the Terra Endowment.

Identifier:

AAA.tokikame

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Kamekichi Tokita Papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9a680d2f9-94bf-4350-9f34-69068917ef42

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-tokikame

Creator:

Graves, Morris, 1910-  Search this

Names:

Group of Twelve (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Graves, Celia  Search this

Mills, Merita  Search this

Extent:

100 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1932-1963

Scope and Contents:

44 personal letters to Merita Mills from Graves, 1932-1937, and 3 letters to his sister, Celia, 1935-1936; photographs of Graves, his family, an unidentified woman, and a painting, "Millenium Light"; notes and writings; printed material; and clippings.

Biographical / Historical:

Painter; Washington. Graves was a member of the Seattle area progressive artists' collective known as the "Group of Twelve."

Provenance:

Lent for microfilming 1975 by Margaret Pomeroy Hoover.

Restrictions:

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

Occupation:

Painters -- Washington (State)  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.gravmorp

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw927ff5d40-145b-416c-8716-98f43b01f240

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-gravmorp

Creator:

Callahan, Kenneth, 1905-1986  Search this

Names:

Group of Twelve (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Tobey, Mark  Search this

Extent:

2,000 Items ((on 2 microfilm reels))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sketchbooks

Date:

1932-1963

Scope and Contents:

Correspondence, clippings, biographical material, personal documents, exhibition notices and catalogs, lectures and writings on art, note and sketchbooks, personal photographs, among them 1 of Mark Tobey and several of Callahan in his studio, and photographs of his works. Also included is a masters thesis on Callahan by Jean Weihl.

Biographical / Historical:

Painter; Pacific Northwest; d. 1986.

Provenance:

Donated 1963 by Kenneth Callahan.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm.

Occupation:

Artists -- Northwestern States  Search this

Painters -- Washington (State)  Search this

Function:

Artists' studios -- Washington (State)

Genre/Form:

Sketchbooks

Identifier:

AAA.callkenn

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw983b77f93-bc6d-4c13-b336-f058142a2543

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-callkenn

Interviewee:

Callahan, Kenneth, 1905-1986  Search this

Interviewer:

Bestor, Dorothy K., 1913-  Search this

Creator:

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Names:

Group of Twelve (Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Extent:

15 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1965 March 9

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Kenneth Callahan conducted 1965 March 9, by Dorothy Bestor, for the Archives of American Art.

Biographical / Historical:

Kenneth Callahan (1905-1986) was a painter from Long Beach, Washington. Callahan was a member of the Seattle area progressive artists' collective known as the "Group of Twelve."

General:

Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 36 min.

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:

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

Occupation:

Painters -- Washington (State) -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.callah65

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw95b2f7541-8137-40cc-bcaa-3f6392cc3cf8

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-callah65