| Title: |
Reminiscences of Thomas Hart Benton
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A24
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Family background, reputation in Missouri; father's political career; trip to Joplin, early cartoonist job; Washington D.C. at turn of century; years in Paris, art movement, cafe life; populism, political and artistic; Bohemian art; capitalism and art; film work in New Jersey; effects of Armory Show; World War I naval experiences; Missouri mural; art criticism; walking tours of the South; Orozco; sculptural painting; executing a mural; New York Marxist groups, 1930s; New School mural; WPA lecture tour; homosexual influence on art world; social function of art; Joplin mural; work for Walt Disney; regionalist movement; representational artists and the War.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 185 leaves, Tape: 3cassettes
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1976. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. Microfiche copy available for purchase. (Columbia University oral history collection, part III, published by Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT).
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1972 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1889
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| Speaker occupation: |
Artist
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| Age at speaking: |
83
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| Document date: |
1972
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| Interviewer: |
Gallagher, Robert S.
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| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. Work Projects Administration
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| Locations discussed: |
Europe; France; Ile-de-France, France; North America; Paris, Ile-de-France, France; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Art, American; Artists; Cartography; Europe; France; Ile-de-France, France; Intellectual life--Paris (France); North America; Paris, Ile-de-France, France; U.S. Work Projects Administration; United States
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Art and state; Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975; Mural painting and decoration--20th century--United States
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0017989-13432
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