Oral history interview with Olive Rush
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 29 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Rush, Olive, 1873-1966
label: Interviewer
content: Loomis, Sylvia Glidden
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (N.M.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe
label: Topic
content: Muralists -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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.
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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Rush, Olive, 1873-1966
label: Interviewer
content: Loomis, Sylvia Glidden
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Olive Rush (1873-1966) was a painter and muralist in Santa Fe, N.M.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 14 Pages (Transcript)
label: Extent
content: 1 Item (sound files (29 min.))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1963 November 13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rush63
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The original transcript was edited. In 2021 the Archives retranscribed the original audio and attempted to create a verbatim transcript. Additional information from the original transcript that seemed relevant was added in brackets and given an –Ed. attribution. This interview was audited and edited by Ellen Brooks in 2025.
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 of Olive Rush conducted 1963 November 13, by Sylvia Loomis, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Rush speaks of her family background and youth; her education at the Corcoran School of Art; her involvement with the Federal Art Project; working on murals for public buildings in Santa Fe and the southwest; and the public's perception of the Federal Art Project and its administration.