Oral history interview with Guy Anderson
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hrs., 27 minutes.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Anderson, Guy, 1906-1998
label: Interviewer
content: Kingsbury, Martha, 1941-
label: Names
content: Graves, Morris, 1910-2001
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Washington (State) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Figurative art
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- Washington (State) -- History
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Northwestern States -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- Northwestern States
label: Topic
content: Art, American -- Northwestern States
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' Northwest Oral History Project, begun in 1982 to document the Northwest artistic community through interviews with painters, sculptors, craftsmen, educators, curators, and others, in Oregon, Washington and Montana.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Anderson, Guy, 1906-1998
label: Interviewer
content: Kingsbury, Martha, 1941-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Guy Anderson (1906-1998) was a painter, from LaConner, Washington.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Sound cassettes (Sound recording)
label: Extent
content: 86 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1983 February 1-8
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.anders83
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Transcript also available at the University of Washington, Manuscripts Collection, and at the Oregon Historical Society.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Guy Anderson conducted 1983 February 1-8, by Martha Kingsbury, for the Archives of American Art's Northwest Oral History Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Anderson speaks of his education; his career; the Great Depression and its impact on art and on him; working in the Seattle Art Museum in the 1930s; murals in the 1930s; the Spokane Art Center; vegetarianism; his travels in Alaska, Mexico, and Japan; meeting Morris Graves; religious painting; and the importance of the human figure to art.