New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project Search this
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview of the board of the Spokane Art Center, 1965 November 18. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
University of California, San Francisco. School of Fine Arts Search this
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Dorothy Cravath, 1964 May 13-27. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
An interview of Dorothy Cravath conducted 1964 May 13 and May 27, by Minette Martin for the Archives of American Art.
Interview conducted at the home of Leota Molten in Berkeley, California. Cravath speaks of her youth and art education at the California School of Fine Arts; painting murals for the Federal Art Project; and restoring the murals at Coit Tower. She recalls Diego Rivera and discusses his influence on muralists.
Biographical / Historical:
Dorothy Cravath (1901-1974) was a mural painter in San Francisco, California.
General:
Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 55 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.
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Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
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Muralists -- California -- San Francisco Search this
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project Search this
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Arthur and Jean Goodwin Ames, 1965 June 9. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project Search this
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Sound recordings
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Christine Jeannette Abel, 1965 June 5. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project Search this
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Sound recordings
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Paul and Alberta von Ottenfeld Babcock, 1965 May 1. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project Search this
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Belle Baranceanu and Hilda Preibisius, 1964 August 1. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project Search this
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Sound recordings
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Edward Biberman, 1964 April 15. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project Search this
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Sound recordings
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Anton Blazek, 1965 April 13. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project Search this
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Sound recordings
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Irving Block, 1965 April 16. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project Search this
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Sound recordings
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Nicholas P. Brigante, 1964 May 25. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project Search this
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Sound recordings
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interviews with Flavio Emanuel Cabral, 1965 April 3-May 3. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
United States. Works Progress Administration Search this
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project Search this
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Interviews
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Helen Bess Clarke and James Mitchell Clarke, 1964 June 24. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project Search this
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Sound recordings
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Frode Nielsen Dann, 1965 June 11. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project Search this
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Sound recordings
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Boris Deutsch, 1964 June 1-5. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project Search this
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Sound recordings
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Louisa Etcheverry, 1964 Sept. 23. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.