Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Patricia Stanley Cunningham, 1964 July 28. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
An interview of Patricia Stanley Cunningham conducted 1964 July 28, by Mary Fuller McChesney and Robert McChesney, for the Archives of American Art.
Cunningham speaks of her training at the University of California, Berkeley; her work for the Federal Art Project as a muralist in public school buildings and on the easel painting project in the area around Monterey, Carmel, and Big Sur, California; how her work was supervised; artists she knew; starting the Carmel Art Institute with her husband, John Cunningham, and the effect of the Federal Art Project on her career. She recalls Bruce Ariss, Burton Boundey, Beniamino Bufano, and Amalie Waldo.
Biographical / Historical:
Patricia Stanley Cunningham (1907-1984) was a painter, sculptor, designer, and muralist from Carmel, California.
General:
Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 48 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:
This interview is open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Adolph Friedrich Reinhardt and Mary Fuller McChesney. Interview with Ad Reinhardt, 1966 April 27. Mary Fuller McChesney papers, 1949-2011, 1949-2011. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Hassel Wendell Smith and Mary Fuller McChesney. Interview with Hassel Smith, 1965 July 20. Mary Fuller McChesney papers, 1949-2011, 1949-2011. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Deborah Williams Remington and Mary Fuller McChesney. Interview with Deborah Remington, 1965. Mary Fuller McChesney papers, 1949-2011, 1949-2011. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Joan Brown and Mary Fuller McChesney. Interview with Joan Brown, 1965. Mary Fuller McChesney papers, 1949-2011, 1949-2011. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco, Calif.) Search this
Type:
Sound Recording
Place:
San Francisco, Calif.
Date:
1965 August 30
Citation:
Dorr Hodgson Bothwell and Mary Fuller McChesney. Interview with Dorr Bothwell, 1965 August 30. Mary Fuller McChesney papers, 1949-2011, 1949-2011. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco, Calif.) Search this
Type:
Sound Recording
Place:
San Francisco, Calif.
Date:
1965
Citation:
Madeleine Martin and Mary Fuller McChesney. Interview with Madeleine Martin, 1965. Mary Fuller McChesney papers, 1949-2011, 1949-2011. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco, Calif.) Search this
Type:
Sound Recording
Date:
1966 April 26
Citation:
James Kelly and Mary Fuller McChesney. Interview with James Kelly, 1966 April 26. Mary Fuller McChesney papers, 1949-2011, 1949-2011. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Ernest Briggs and Mary Fuller McChesney. Interview with Ernest Briggs, 1966 April 20. Mary Fuller McChesney papers, 1949-2011, 1949-2011. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco, Calif.) Search this
Type:
Sound Recording
Date:
1965 October 27
Citation:
James Budd Dixon and Mary Fuller McChesney. Interview with James Budd Dixon, 1965 October 27. Mary Fuller McChesney papers, 1949-2011, 1949-2011. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco, Calif.) Search this
Type:
Sound Recording
Date:
between 1965 and 1966
Citation:
Douglas MacAgy and Mary Fuller McChesney. Interview with Douglas MacAgy, between 1965 and 1966. Mary Fuller McChesney papers, 1949-2011, 1949-2011. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
James Weeks and Mary Fuller McChesney. Interview with James Weeks, 1965 December 8. Mary Fuller McChesney papers, 1949-2011, 1949-2011. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The papers of painter and instructor Edward Dugmore measure 2.0 linear feet and date from 1937-1993. Found within this small collection are biographical materials, scattered business and financial records, notes, a file concerning the Drake University Summer Session, printed material, and photographs. The bulk of the papers consist of correspondence exchanged with art critic Hubert Crehan and artist colleagues including George Abend, Ernie Briggs, Herman Cherry, Lucien Day, Harvey Harris, Reuben Kadish, Mary Fuller McChesney, and Clyfford Still.
Scope and Content Note:
The papers of painter and instructor Edward Dugmore measure 2.0 linear feet and date from 1937-1993. Found within this small collection are biographical materials, scattered business and financial records, notes, a file concerning the Drake University Summer Session, printed material, and photographs. The bulk of the papers consist of correspondence exchanged with art critic Hubert Crehan and artist colleagues including George Abend, Ernie Briggs, Herman Cherry, Lucien Day, Harvey Harris, Reuben Kadish, Mary Fuller McChesney, and Clyfford Still.
Printed materials include clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, and press releases. Photographs are of artwork, Dugmore, and colleagues, including Lewin Alcopley, Anne Arnold, Warren Brandt, Ernest Briggs, Herman Cherry, Hubert Crehan, Lucien Day, Rosalyn Drexler, John Grillo, John Hultberg, Reuben Kadish, Aristodemus Kaldis, Kyle Morris, Stephen and Pam Pace, Charles Pollock, Peter Voulkos, and Hugo Weber.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into 7 series:
Missing Title
Series 1: Biographical Material, 1948-1993 (Box 1; 3 folders)
Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1943-1992 (Box 1, 2; 1.5 linear feet)
Series 3: Business Records, circa 1951-1972 (Box 2; 2 folders)
Series 4: Notes, circa 1969-1980 (Box 2; 1 folder)
Series 5: Drake University Summer Session File, 1972-1973(Box 2; 5 folders)
Series 6: Printed Material, circa 1937-1993 (Box 2; 25 folders)
Series 7: Photographs, circa 1960-1983 (Box 2; 9 folders)
Biographical Note:
Edward Dugmore (1915-1996) was a painter and arts instructor working in New York, San Francisco, Illinois, and Maryland.
Edward Dugmore was born in 1915 in Hartford Connecticutt, the son of Walter and Ellen Spragg Dugmore. Dugmore received a four year scholarship to study painting at Hartford Art School from 1934 to 1938. In 1938, he also married Edith Oslund. He briefly studied lithography and etching under Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City (Missouri) Art Institute in 1941. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, he returned to New York City. From 1946 to 1948, he taught painting and drawing at St. Joseph's College in West Hartford, Connecticut.
In 1948, Dugmore moved to San Francisco and began two year's study of art under the G.I. Bill at the California School of Fine Arts, were he befriended Clyfford Still and Ernest Briggs. He co-founded the artists' collaborative Metart Gallery, where he had his first solo exhibition in 1950.
From 1951 to 1952, Dugmore studied at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, earning a master's degree in fine arts. In 1952, he moved back to New York City where he had solo exhibitions at the Stable Gallery over the following three years. He also had solo exhibitions at the Howard Wise Gallery in New York and Cleveland during the 1960s.
Between 1961 and 1962, Dugmore was Visiting Artist at the University of Southern Illinois, and in 1970, he was Visiting Artist at the Des Moines Art Center and Drake University. From 1964 to 1974, he taught painting and drawing part time at the Pratt Institute, and in 1965, he was Artist-in-Residence at the Montana Institute of Fine Arts, sponsored by a Ford Foundation Grant. From 1973 to 1982, he taught part time at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dugmore's paintings are in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Walker Art Center, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Edward Dugmore died in 1996 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Related Material:
Among the holdings of the Archives of American Art is a transcribed oral history interview with Edward Dugmore conducted by Tram Combs in 1994.
Provenance:
The Edward Dugmore papers were donated in several increments between 1980 to 1993 by the artist.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Use requires an appointment.
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.
Topic:
Painters -- New York (State) -- New York Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Edward Dugmore papers, 1937-1993. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The Mary Fuller McChesney papers measure 44.1 linear feet and date from 1949-2011. Included are biographical material, correspondence, writings, artists' files, financial records, photographs, artwork, printed material, and reel-to reel sound recordings documenting the career of sculptor, art historian, and author, Mary Fuller McChesney. A small portion of the papers includes material on painter, Edward Corbett.
Among the sound recordings are interviews conducted by McChesney between 1965 and 1966, and used as the primary research for her book. Interviewees include Jeremy Anderson, Dorr Bothwell, Ernest Briggs, Joan Brown (2), Lawrence Calcagno (2), Edward Corbett (2), James Budd Dixon, Edward Dugmore, Jorge Goya, Dimitri Grachis, John Grillo (1966, 1972), John Hultberg, Jack Jefferson, James Kelly, Walter Kuhlman, Seymour Locks, Douglas MacAgy, Madeleine Martin, William Morehouse, Raymond Parker, Leonard Pollakoff, Ad Reinhardt, Deborah Remington, Phil Roeber, John Saccaro, Jon Schueler, Peter Shoemaker, Hassel Smith, Clay Spohn, Jean Varda, and James Weeks.
Biographical / Historical:
Mary Fuller McChesney (1922-2022) was a sculptor, art historian, and author in San Francisco and Petaluma, California.
Provenance:
A majority of the collection donated 2015 by Mary Fuller McChesney. Photographs on reel 1329 donated 1973 and sound recordings donated 1994 by McChesney. Material on reel NDA 1 (fr. 728-741) lent for microfilming 1964 by Lewis Ferbrache; material on NDA 1 (fr. 930-943) lent 1964 by Mary F. McChesney.
Restrictions:
This collection is temporarily closed. Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center.
Mary Fuller McChesney. Mary Fuller McChesney letter to Steven W. Rosen, 1993 October 25. Robert McChesney papers, 1913-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project Search this
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) Search this
Type:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with William Abbenseth, 1964 November 23. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
