Oral history interview with Tyrus Wong
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 48 min.
label: General
content: Only the second half of this interview was successfully recorded.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Wong, Tyrus
label: Interviewer
content: McGlynn, Betty Hoag
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Buck, Frank E. (Frank Eugene), 1889 or 90-1959
label: Names
content: Jeakins, Dorothy
label: Names
content: Jones, Joe, 1909-1963
label: Names
content: Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973
label: Names
content: Murry, Jerre, 1904-1973
label: Names
content: Newell, Gordon
label: Names
content: O'Hara, Eliot, 1890-1969
label: Names
content: Stanley, George M., 1903-
label: Names
content: Winter, Carl, 1906 Jan. 10-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- California
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California
label: Occupation
content: Designers -- California
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- California
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Painting, Asian
label: Topic
content: Chinese American art
label: Topic
content: Chinese American artists
label: Topic
content: Asian American art
label: Topic
content: Asian American artists
label: Topic
content: Asian American painters
label: Topic
content: Asian American illustrators
label: Topic
content: Asian American printmakers
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: Wong, Tyrus
label: Interviewer
content: McGlynn, Betty Hoag
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Tyrus Wong (1910-2016) was a Chinese American painter, designer, illustrator, and printmaker based in California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 28 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 January 30
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wong65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
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 Tyrus Wong conducted 1965 January 30, by Betty Hoag, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Wong discusses making a film for grade schools and UCLA, which was produced by Eliot O'Hara, where he demonstrated Oriental painting techniques and Joe Jones demonstrated American techniques; working as an illustrator for Republic Studio; designing pottery plates for Greenfield Pottery, Gabriel Pottery in Pasadena; illustrations for the Western Art Review magazine; covers for the Los Angeles Times Home Section 1954 & 1955; text and illustrations for Watercolor Portraits, 1949; designing ads for various magazines; and doing watercolors, lithographs, and murals for the WPA, including the Santa Monica Library. Wong recalls Surasawa, Dorothy Jeakins, Nick Berganti, Hideo Dati, Benjy Ocobo, Carl Winter, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Jerre Murry, Steven LaVerne Dunwell, George Stanley, Gordon Newell, and Frank Buck.