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Creator:

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945  Search this

Hopkins, Harry Lloyd, 1890-1946  Search this

Subject:

Biddle, George  Search this

Bruce, Edward  Search this

Chambless, Edgar  Search this

Dows, Olin  Search this

Kent, Rockwell  Search this

Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich)  Search this

Zorach, William  Search this

American Institute of Architects  Search this

Federal Art Project  Search this

Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)  Search this

Public Works of Art Project  Search this

Treasury Relief Art Project  Search this

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts  Search this

United States. President (1933-1945 : Roosevelt)  Search this

Place:

United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945

United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945

Citation:

Federal art program papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry L. Hopkins, 1932-1942. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

New Deal, 1933-1939  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Federal aid to the public welfare  Search this

Art and state  Search this

Theme:

Patronage  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)9867

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)212368

AAA_collcode_roosfran

Theme:

Patronage

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_212368

Interviewee:

Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988  Search this

Interviewer:

Cummings, Paul  Search this

Names:

Artists' Union (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Bollingen Foundation  Search this

Brummer Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Japanese American Citizens' League  Search this

Japanese American Citizens' League  Search this

Leonardo da Vinci Art School  Search this

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill  Search this

UNESCO  Search this

Barnard, George Grey, 1863-1938  Search this

Becker, John Bruere, 1915-  Search this

Borglum, Gutzon, 1867-1941  Search this

Brancusi, Constantin, 1876-1957  Search this

Breton, André, 1896-1966  Search this

Brummer, Joseph  Search this

Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960  Search this

Calder, Alexander Stirling, 1870-1945  Search this

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976  Search this

Collier, John, Jr., 1913-1992  Search this

Covarrubias, Miguel, 1904-1957  Search this

Davis, Stuart, 1892-1964  Search this

De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997  Search this

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968  Search this

Egan, Charles, 1911-  Search this

Fraser, James Earle, 1876-1953  Search this

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983  Search this

Gorky, Arshile, 1904-1948  Search this

Graham, John, 1887-1961  Search this

Graham, Martha  Search this

Gregory, Peter Ronald, 1947-  Search this

Guston, Philip, 1913-1980  Search this

Hare, David, 1917-1992  Search this

Hasegawa, Saburō, 1906-1957  Search this

Hopkins, Harry Lloyd, 1890-1946  Search this

Itō, Michio, 1893-1961  Search this

Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974  Search this

Kantor, Morris, 1896-1974  Search this

Kline, Franz, 1910-1962  Search this

Knoll, Hans  Search this

Levy, Julien  Search this

Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955  Search this

McMahon, Audrey, 1900?-1981  Search this

Moore, Henry, 1898-1986  Search this

Neumann, J. B. (Jsrael Ber)  Search this

Price, Edison A., d. 1997  Search this

Raymond, Antonin, 1888-  Search this

Reynal, Jeanne, 1903-  Search this

Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957  Search this

Ruellan, Andrée, 1905-2006  Search this

Ruotolo, Onorio, 1888-1966  Search this

Schoen, Eugene, 1880-1957  Search this

Shoji, Sadao, 1937-  Search this

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946  Search this

Taniguchi, Yoshirō, 1904-  Search this

Ward, Eleanor, 1912-1984  Search this

Zorach, William, 1887-1966  Search this

Extent:

148 Pages (Transcript)

1 Item (Audio excerpt: 1 sound file (5 min. 29 sec.), digital)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Place:

Japan -- Description and Travel

Italy -- description and travel

Egypt -- description and travel

India -- description and travel

Date:

1973 Nov. 7-Dec. 26

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Isamu Noguchi conducted 1973 Nov. 7-Dec. 26, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.

NOVEMBER 7, 1973 session: Noguchi discusses his family background; growing up in Japan; returning to the United States in 1917; his identity as an artist; Gutzon Borglum; Columbia University and studying pre-med; attending Leonardo da Vinci Art School; apprenticing to Onorio Ruotolo; quitting Columbia to become a sculptor; Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927; J.B. Neumann; Alfred Stieglitz; George Grey Barnard; James Earle Fraser; Brummer and the Brummer Gallery; studying at Chaumiere and Collarosi; working with Brancusi; meeting Sandy Calder in Paris; Stuart Davis; Morris Kantor; Andrée Ruellan; his work, "Sphere"; reacting against Brancusi; Eugene Schoen's; his Carnegie Hall studio; Michio Ito; Martha Graham; Buckminster Fuller; traveling in China and Japan; meeting Chi Pai Shi; John Becker; his works, "Play Mountain," "Monument to the Plow," "Monument to Ben Franklin," and "Orpheus" for Balanchine; designing for the stage; Audrey McMahon; Harry Hopkins; Holger Cahill; Mexico; Diego Rivera; Miguel Covarrubias; and the Artists Union.

DECEMBER 10, 1973 Session: His reaction to the Spanish Civil War- avoided direct involvement; Stuart Davis; Gorky; Andre Breton; David Hare; Marcel Duchamp; John Graham; Julien Levy; his artist friends dying at the peak of their success; Leger; Stirling Calder; associating himself with the laboring class; Buckminster Fuller; being American; expanding the possibilities of sculpture; his Associated Press Building project in Rockefeller Center, it being done in stainless steel instead of bronze; John Collier; Japanese-American Citizens League; organizing Nisei Artists and Writers Mobilization for Democracy; Jeanne Reynal; going to Poston, Ariz. to assist with American Indian Service camp under John Collier and becoming an internee there; returning to New York in 1942; Bollingen Foundation; trip around the world in 1949; and Philip Guston.

DECEMBER 18, 1973 session: Best work in studio; reaction against expressionism; artists protesting against the Establishment; his objection to the WPA, influenced by William Zorach; exhibiting in group show called, "Fourteen Americans at the Museum of Modern Art"; show at Egan Gallery in 1949; accepting art in its most aesthetically pure form without reference to social issues; movement in Japan since war to get away from refinement of Japan; Yoshiro Hiro responsible for Gutai and the happenings; his work, "Monument to Heroes," using bones; his work takes years to do; materials used in his work; his work, "Cronos"; doing theater stage sets for the Library of Congress including, "Appalachian Spring" and "Herodiade"; wants a given space which he can call his own and do something with it, has to be a work of art.

DECEMBER 26, 1973 Session: Show with Charles Egan in 1948 arranged by de Kooning; applying to the Bollingen Foundation to write a book on leisure, which was never written; traveling to Italy, Egypt, and India for two years; being removed from the New York scene with Franz Kline and de Kooning; his light objects; sculpture as environment; respect for material; Mondrian and his art deriving from nature; his time in Japan in 1931; visiting Japan in 1951; working in stone; projects in Japan; Taniguchi; Antonin Raymond; designing Japanese gardens; discovery of Zen; Hasegawa Saburo; Skidmore; Hans Knoll; Edison Price; Italy in the 1960s; Peter Gregory; Henry Moore; Louis Kahn; UNESCO; Noguchi Foundation and Plaza Company; Shoji; Eleanor Ward; and his autobiography, "A Sculptor's World."

Biographical / Historical:

Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was a Japanese American sculptor based in Long Island City, New York.

General:

Originally recorded on 4 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hrs., 25 min.

Provenance:

These interviews are part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Topic:

Asian American art  Search this

Asian American artists  Search this

Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century  Search this

Sculpture, American  Search this

Gardens, Japanese  Search this

Japanese American art  Search this

Japanese American artists  Search this

Asian American sculptors  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.noguch73

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw970de0eb2-280b-4f18-b6d9-a56d957ed476

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-noguch73

Creator:

Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960  Search this

Names:

American Artists' Congress  Search this

American Council of Learned Societies  Search this

American Federation of Arts  Search this

Artists' Union (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Cartoonists Guild  Search this

Federal Art Project (U.S.)  Search this

Federal Music Project (U.S.)  Search this

Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)  Search this

Index of American Design  Search this

New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Shakers  Search this

The Design Laboratory (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Treasury Relief Art Project  Search this

United States. Work Projects Administration  Search this

United States. Works Progress Administration  Search this

Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991  Search this

Brown, Samuel Joseph, 1907-1994  Search this

De Rivera, José Ruiz, 1904-1985  Search this

Halpert, Edith Gregor, 1900-1970  Search this

Hopkins, Harry Lloyd, 1890-1946  Search this

Knaths, Karl, 1891-1971  Search this

Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003  Search this

Morris, Carl, 1911-1993  Search this

Olds, Elizabeth, 1896-1991  Search this

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962  Search this

Rowan, Edward Beatty, 1898-1946  Search this

Scaravaglione, Concetta, 1900-1975  Search this

Segal, George, 1924-2000  Search this

Speck, Walter, 1895-  Search this

Ward, Lynd, 1905-1985  Search this

Weisenborn, Rudolph, b. 1881  Search this

Extent:

15.8 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Government records

Interviews

Scrapbooks

Photographs

Slides (photographs)

Photograph albums

Drawings

Place:

United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945

United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945

Date:

1910-1993

bulk 1910-1960

Summary:

The papers of Holger Cahill (1887-1960) date from 1910 to 1993, with the bulk of the material dating from 1910-1960, and measure 15.8 linear feet. The collection offers researchers fairly comprehensive documentation of Cahill's directorship of the Works Progress/Projects Administration's (WPA) Federal Art Project (FAP) in addition to series documenting his work as a writer and art critic. Material includes correspondence, reports, artist files, scrapbooks, printed material, and photographs.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of Holger Cahill (1887-1960) date from 1910 to 1993, bulk 1910-1960, and measure 15.8 linear feet. The collection offers researchers fairly comprehensive documentation of Cahill's directorship of the FAP in addition to series documenting his work as a writer and art critic. FAP records include national and state administrative reports, records of community art centers, photographic documentation of state activities, artist files, divisional records about teaching, crafts, murals, and poster work, files concerning the Index of American Design, scrapbooks, and printed material.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into nine series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material and Personal Papers, 1931-1988 (Box 1; 19 folders)

Series 2: Correspondence Files, 1922-1979, 1993 (Boxes 1-2; 1.5 linear ft.)

Series 3: Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, 1934-1970 (Boxes 2-14, 18, MMs009; 10.75 linear ft.)

Series 4: Writings, Lectures and Speeches, 1916-1960 (Boxes 14-15, 18; 1.0 linear ft.)

Series 5: Minutes of Meetings and Panel Discussions, Non-FAP, 1939-1947 (Box 15; 5 folders)

Series 6: Notes and Research Material, 1935-1970 (Boxes 15-16; 0.25 linear ft.)

Series 7: Artwork, undated (Boxes 16, 18; 2 folders)

Series 8: Printed Material, 1910-1985 (Boxes 16-17; 1.8 linear ft.)

Series 9: Photographs, circa 1917-1960 (Box 17; 6 folders)

Biographical Note:

Holger Cahill was born Sveinn Kristjan Bjarnarson in Iceland in a small valley near the Arctic Circle, on January 13, 1887. His parents, Bjorn Jonson and Vigdis Bjarnadottir, immigrated to the United States from Iceland sometime later in the 1880s. In 1904, his father deserted the family, forcing Sveinn to be separated from his mother and sister to work on a farm in North Dakota. He ran away and wandered from job to job until settling in an orphanage in western Canada, where he attended school and became a voracious reader.

As a young man, he worked at many different jobs and attended night school. While working on a freighter, he visited Hong Kong, beginning his life-long interest in the Orient. Returning to New York City, he eventually became a newspaper reporter, continued his studies at New York University, and changed his name to Edgar Holger Cahill. In 1919 he married Katherine Gridley of Detroit. Their daughter, Jane Ann, was born in 1922, but the couple divorced in 1927.

Cahill met John Sloan circa 1920, and they shared a residence. Cahill also wrote publicity (until 1928) for the Society of Independent Artists, through which he made many friends in the arts. From 1922 to 1931, he worked under John Cotton Dana at the Newark Museum, where he received his basic experience in museum work, organizing the first large exhibitions of folk art.

From 1932 to 1935, he was the director of exhibitions for the Museum of Modern Art. In 1935, Cahill was appointed director of the Works Progress/Projects Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project (FAP), until its end in June 1943. In 1938, Cahill organized a countrywide exhibition "American Art Today" for the New York World's Fair. He also married MoMa curator Dorothy Canning Miller in that year.

Profane Earth, Cahill's first novel, was published in 1927, followed by monographs on Pop Hart and Max Weber, miscellaneous short stories, and a biography of Frederick Townsend Ward, entitled A Yankee Adventurer: The Story of Ward and the Taiping Rebellion. Following the end of the Federal Art Project, Cahill wrote two novels, Look South to the Polar Star (1947) and The Shadow of My Hand (1956).

Holger Cahill died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in July 1960.

Provenance:

The Holger Cahill papers were donated to the Archives of American Art through a series of gifts by Cahill's widow, Dorothy C. Miller, between 1964 and 1995.

Restrictions:

The microfilm of this collection has been digitized and is available online via the Archives of American Art website.

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:

Arts administrators  Search this

Topic:

Federal aid to the public welfare  Search this

Art and state  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

New Deal, 1933-1939  Search this

Public officers  Search this

Genre/Form:

Prints

Government records

Interviews

Scrapbooks

Photographs

Slides (photographs)

Photograph albums

Drawings

Citation:

Holger Cahill papers, 1910-1993, bulk 1910-1960. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the digitization of the microfilm of this collection was provided by Jane Blumenfeld.

Identifier:

AAA.cahiholg

See more items in:

Holger Cahill papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw93d4a8dc7-a7be-470b-8216-ae763d3bc9e2

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-cahiholg

Interviewee:

Abel, Donald G.  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

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Hinckley, Robert H., 1891-  Search this

Hopkins, Harry Lloyd, 1890-1946  Search this

Inverarity, Robert Bruce, 1909-1999  Search this

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962  Search this

Extent:

12 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1965 June 10

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Don G. Abel conducted 1965 June 10, by Dorothy Bestor, for the Archives of American Art. Abel describes his position as state administrator for the WPA in Washington state, the levels of organization within the WPA, and his relationship with Robert Hinckley, Harry Hopkins, and Robert Bruce Inverarity. He also speaks of Eleanor Roosevelt's visits to Seattle Art Projects and her interest in the work of women artists. He also discusses communist opposition to the WPA, federal appropriations, the transition from Federal Art Project to the Washington State Project and the accomplishments of the WPA.

Biographical / Historical:

Don G. Abel was an art adminstrator with the Works Progress Administration, from Washington state.

General:

Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 36 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:

Arts administrators -- Washington (State) -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Art and state  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.abel65

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9e0e7ccd1-3122-4c50-b87a-58f704ba0bd3

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-abel65

Creator:

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945  Search this

Hopkins, Harry Lloyd, 1890-1946  Search this

Names:

American Institute of Architects  Search this

Federal Art Project  Search this

Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)  Search this

Public Works of Art Project  Search this

Treasury Relief Art Project  Search this

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts  Search this

United States. President (1933-1945 : Roosevelt)  Search this

Biddle, George, 1885-1973  Search this

Bruce, Edward, 1879-1943  Search this

Chambless, Edgar, d. 1936  Search this

Dows, Olin, 1904-1981  Search this

Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971  Search this

Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979  Search this

Zorach, William, 1887-1966  Search this

Extent:

4 Microfilm reels

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Microfilm reels

Place:

United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945

United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945

Date:

1932-1942

Scope and Contents:

Correspondence of Roosevelt, Edward Bruce, Nelson Rockefeller, Hopkins, George Biddle, William Zorach, Olin Dows, Rockwell Kent and others regarding the Public Works of Art Project, the Federal Theater Project, and the Federal Art Project; reports on regional Federal Art Project offices in Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Pennsylvania; shipping receipts for works of art; clippings; photographs of works of art; correspondence between White House staff and members of the American Institute of Architects concerning federal architecture, 1934; correspondence of Edgar Chambless regarding his urban design, "Roadtown"; and miscellaneous correspondence.

Biographical / Historical:

President of the United States of America, 1933-1945. Instituted the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and its programs. Harry L. Hopkins was the Director of the WPA. The Federal Art Project was one of five projects in Federal Project No. 1 of the WPA. Holger Cahill was director.

Provenance:

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library donated the microfilm copies of these papers to AAA in 1982. The microfilming was done by the donor.

Restrictions:

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

Rights:

Authorization to publish, quote, or reproduce requires written permission from Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park N.Y. Contact Reference Services for more information.

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.

Topic:

New Deal, 1933-1939  Search this

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Federal aid to the public welfare  Search this

Art and state  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.roosfran

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw99e7cc37c-288c-4fe3-a04f-5d9d39f8e4e4

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-roosfran

Creator:

Federal Art Project (Or.)  Search this

Names:

United States. Work Projects Administration  Search this

United States. Works Progress Administration  Search this

Hopkins, Harry Lloyd, 1890-1946  Search this

Extent:

15 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1936-1939

Scope and Contents:

Typescript of a speech given by Harry Hopkins, FAP bulletins, reports, and some correspondence.

Biographical / Historical:

The Federal Art Project (FAP) fell under the jurisdiction of Federal Project No. 1 of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA was established in May 1935 specifically as a work relief program for the millions of individuals left unemployed during the Depression. Its name changed to the Work Projects Administration in 1939 when it fell under the administrative hand of the newly created Federal Works Agency. The FAP was created in August 1935 to aid unemployed artists, following the precedent set by the Public Works of Art Project and other Treasury department art relief projects. Holger Cahill was appointed director of the FAP and remained in that position throughout its existence. Harry Hopkins was the administrator for the WPA.

Provenance:

Lent for microfilming by Margery Hoffman Smith.

Restrictions:

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

Topic:

New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Oregon  Search this

Federal aid to the arts -- Oregon  Search this

Federal aid to the public welfare -- Oregon  Search this

Function:

Programs (organizations)

Agencies

Identifier:

AAA.fedeartp06

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw91033c5a1-eeeb-448f-adec-dff6142ff767

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-fedeartp06