Oral history interview with Patricia Stanley Cunningham
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 48 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Cunningham, Patricia Stanley, 1907-1984
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Robert, 1913-2008
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Calif.)
label: Names
content: Ariss, Bruce
label: Names
content: Boundey, Burton, 1879-1962
label: Names
content: Bufano, Beniamino, 1898-1970
label: Names
content: Waldo, Amalie
topic: label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- California
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California
label: Occupation
content: Designers -- California
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- California
label: Occupation
content: Art school directors
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women designers
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
label: Topic
content: Women muralists
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: Cunningham, Patricia Stanley, 1907-1984
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Robert, 1913-2008
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Patricia Stanley Cunningham (1907-1984) was a painter, sculptor, designer, and muralist from Carmel, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 48 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 July 28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cunninp64
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: 35mm microfilm reel 3418 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 Patricia Stanley Cunningham conducted 1964 July 28, by Mary Fuller McChesney and Robert McChesney, for the Archives of American Art.

Cunningham speaks of her training at the University of California, Berkeley; her work for the Federal Art Project as a muralist in public school buildings and on the easel painting project in the area around Monterey, Carmel, and Big Sur, California; how her work was supervised; artists she knew; starting the Carmel Art Institute with her husband, John Cunningham, and the effect of the Federal Art Project on her career. She recalls Bruce Ariss, Burton Boundey, Beniamino Bufano, and Amalie Waldo.