Oral history interview with Fred Meyer
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 2 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Meyer, Fred
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Cranbrook Academy of Art
label: Names
content: Kansas City Art Institute
label: Names
content: Rochester Institute of Technology
label: Names
content: School for American Crafts
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Educators -- New York (State) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- 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: Interviewee
content: Meyer, Fred
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Fred Meyer (1922-1986) was a painter, sculptor, and educator of Scottsville, N.Y. Full name Frederick R. Meyer.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Items (sound files Sound recording, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 34 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1982 May
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.meyer82
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 with Fred (Frederick R.) Meyer conducted 1982 May, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Meyer speaks of his art activities as a youth in Wis.; his training at the Cranbrook Academy of Art; and his teaching positions at Cranbrook, the Kansas City Art Institute, the School for American Craftsmen in Rochester, N.Y., and the Rochester Institute of Technology.