Oral history interview with Ronald Alfred Slayton
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 18 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Slayton, Ronald Alfred, 1910-1992
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Vt.)
label: Names
content: United States. Work Projects Administration
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Vermont -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art and state
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Handicraft
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' 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: Interviewee
content: Slayton, Ronald Alfred, 1910-1992
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ronald Alfred Slayton (1910-1992) is a painter and crafts administrator from Montpelier, Vermont.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Items (sound files (2 hrs. 15 min.), digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 42 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1984 August 22
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.slayto84
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
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 Ronald Alfred Slayton conducted 1984 August 22, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Slayton discusses his childhood education in Barre, Vermont and Hanover, N.H.; training at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y.; involvement in government art projects and community betterment programs in Burlington, Vermont; setting up a community art program in Brandon, Vermont; developing hand-made crafts in Weston, Vermont; and destruction of most of his WPA paintings.