Oral history interview Opal R. Fleckenstein
name: label: Interviewee
content: Fleckenstein, Opal R., 1911 or 2-1996
label: Interviewer
content: Bestor, Dorothy K., 1913-
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Wash.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Anderson, Guy, 1906-1998
label: Names
content: Tobey, Mark
topic: label: Occupation
content: Ceramicists -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women ceramicists
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: Fleckenstein, Opal R., 1911 or 2-1996
label: Interviewer
content: Bestor, Dorothy K., 1913-
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Opal R. Fleckenstein (1911-1996) was a painter, ceramist from Seattle, Wash.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recordings, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 28 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 Nov. 19 and 20
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.flecke65
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
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Opal R. Fleckenstein conducted 1965 Nov. 19 and 20, by Dorothy Bestor for the Archives of American Art, at the artist's home in Spokane, Wash. Speaks of her work at Spokane Art Center under the Federal Art Project; of the painting courses at the art center; exhibitions shown there; the lack of facilities in Spokane; benefits of the art center to her own development; and her photography, batik work, and painting; She recalls Mark Tobey, Kenneth Downer, and Guy Anderson.