Oral history interview with John Emmett Gerrity
name: label: Interviewee
content: Gerrity, John Emmett, 1895-1980
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
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
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- California
label: Topic
content: Muralists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- San Francisco -- 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: Gerrity, John Emmett, 1895-1980
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: John Emmett Gerrity (1895-1980) was a painter and mural painter from Berkeley, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recordings, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 24 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 Jan. 20
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gerrit65
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
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of John Emmett Gerrity conducted 1965 Jan. 20, by Mary McChesney, for the Archives of American Art. Gerrity speaks of his background and education; working as a watercolorist and a mural painter for the WPA Federal Art Project; his work methods; the effect of the FAP on him and on other artists of the San Francisco Bay area; and the influence of the Mexican muralists.