Oral history interview with William Barrow Floyd
name: label: Interviewee
content: Floyd, William Barrow, 1934-1999
label: Interviewer
content: Pennington, Estill Curtis
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- Kentucky -- Lexington -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art 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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Floyd, William Barrow, 1934-1999
label: Interviewer
content: Pennington, Estill Curtis
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: William B. Floyd (1934-1999) was an art historian of Lexington, Ky.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (sound files Sound recording, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 14 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Originally recorded on 1 cassette.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 July 28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.floyd81
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with William Barrow Floyd conducted 1981 July 28, by Estill Curtis Pennington, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Floyd discusses his early research and publishing of The Barrow Family of Louisiana; his interest in early American portraiture up until the Civil War, specially Kentucky artists Matthew Harris Jouett, Joseph Henry Bush, and Oliver Frazer; the great need for more scholarship and study of early Kentucky art. Floyd also discusses his role as the curator of historic properties for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, restoring and curating Kentucky state buildings such as the Old Capitol Building and My Old Kentucky Home (also known as Federal Hill); his views of how Southern art and architecture are overlooked; and the comparison of Kentucky folk art versus a high art, also known as a Central Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky split.