Oral history interview with Inslee Hopper
name: label: Creator
content: Hopper, Inslee
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Bruce, Edward, 1879-1943
label: Names
content: Force, Juliana, 1876-1948
label: Names
content: Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969
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content: Watson, Forbes, 1880-1960
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art and state
label: Topic
content: Preservationists -- Interviews
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: Creator
content: Hopper, Inslee
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Inslee Hopperis an art administrator and preservationist.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recording, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 44 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 July 28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hopper81
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Inslee Hopper conducted 1981 July 28, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Hopper speaks of his education in art history at Princeton University; his work as editor of THE ARTS under Forbes Watson, 1933-1934; a survey of sculptors for Juliana Force of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1934-1935; his involvement in the Painting and Sculpture section of the Treasury Department under Edward Bruce, 1935-1938; supervising the decoration for the Federal Building at the World's Fair, 1938-1939; his work with Ben Shahn on the documentation of a resettlement project in West Virginia; the Smithsonian Gallery of Art project, 1938-1940; and his work as Edward Bruce's aide.