Oral history interview with William Gaskin
name: label: Interviewee
content: Gaskin, William, 1892-1968
label: Interviewer
content: Ferbraché, Lewis
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Calif.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Bufano, Beniamino, 1898-1970
label: Names
content: Hiler, Hilaire, 1898-1966
label: Names
content: Kingman, Dong, 1911-2000
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching -- California
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Arts administrators -- California -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview 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: Gaskin, William, 1892-1968
label: Interviewer
content: Ferbraché, Lewis
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: William Gaskin, b. 1892; d. 1968, Art administrator of San Francisco, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Sound tape reels (Sound recordings , analog, 7-1/2 ips, 7 in.)
label: Extent
content: 42 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 Feb. 28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gaskin64
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: 35mm microfilm reel 3419 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
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 William Gaskin conducted 1964 Feb. 28, by Lewis Ferbraché, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Gaskin speaks of his education at the San Francisco Institute of Art; his early interest in theater and literature; and his involvement with the WPA-FAP in San Francisco. He discusses a WPA mosaic project; how artists' careers were affected by the WPA; and the effects of politics on the WPA. He mentions Beniamino Bufano, Hilaire Hiler, and Dong Kingman.