Oral history interview with Clifford Amyx
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded as 1 cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 48 minutes.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Amyx, Clifford, 1909-1997
label: Interviewer
content: Pennington, Estill Curtis
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Kentucky -- Lexington -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Kentucky
label: Topic
content: Educators -- Kentucky -- Lexington -- 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: Amyx, Clifford, 1909-1997
label: Interviewer
content: Pennington, Estill Curtis
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Clifford Amyx (1909-1997) was a painter and educator from Lexington, Kentucky.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (sound file Sound recording, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 13 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1982 December 28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.amyx82
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 Clifford Amyx conducted 1982 December 28, by Buck Pennington, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Amyx speaks of moving around during his childhood due to his father's career; moving from Kentucky to Hollywood during the Depression to work on a sound stage for Warner Brothers but when he arrives the job is no longer available, so he enrolls in the San Francisco Art Institute; working in a coal yard Berkeley, California, where he met Joseph Danysh from the Federal Art Project; working as a graphic artist for the Federal Art Project as part of the Works Progress Administration in the Bay Area.