Oral history interview with Bernice Fisher Banks
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 41 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Banks, Bernice Fisher, 1906-
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Robert, 1913-2008
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- California
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
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: Banks, Bernice Fisher, 1906-
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Robert, 1913-2008
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Bernice Fisher Banks (1906- ) was a sculptor from Alameda, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 24 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 February 21
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.banks65
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 Bernice Fisher Banks conducted 1965 February 21, by Mary Fuller McChesney, for the Archives of American Art.