Oral history interview with Kenneth M. Adams
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 51 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Adams, Kenneth M.
label: Interviewer
content: Loomis, Sylvia Glidden
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (N.M.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Treasury Relief Art Project
label: Names
content: Baumann, Gustave, 1881-1971
label: Names
content: Biddle, George, 1885-1973
label: Names
content: Bisttram, Emil, 1895-1976
label: Names
content: Jonson, Raymond, 1891-1982
label: Names
content: Nash, Willard Ayer, 1898-1943
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- New Mexico
label: Topic
content: Public art -- New Mexico
label: Topic
content: Muralists -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Adams, Kenneth M.
label: Interviewer
content: Loomis, Sylvia Glidden
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Kenneth M. Adams (1897-1966) was a painter, mural painter, and educator from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 21 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 April 23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.adams64
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Kenneth Miller Adams conducted 1964 April 23, by Sylvia Glidden Loomis, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Adams discusses his involvement with federal art projects in Taos, New Mexico, including easel painting and mural painting for the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP) and the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP). He describes the contracts and methods of TRAP; he recalls Gustave Baumann, George Biddle, Emil J. Bisttram, Raymond Jonson, Willard Nash, and other associated with the federal projects of the WPA. He also reflects on his role as artist-in-residence at the University of New Mexico.