Oral history interview with Dewey Albinson
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hrs., 34 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Albinson, Dewey, 1898-1971
label: Interviewer
content: Nagle, Virginia
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Minn.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969
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content: Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957
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content: Mousseau, Ronald
label: Names
content: Norman, Will
label: Names
content: Swanson, Ben (Bennet)
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content: Watson, Forbes, 1880-1960
label: Names
content: Wells, Charles, d. 1944
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Art and state -- Minnesota
label: Topic
content: Arts administrators -- Minnesota -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Handicraft
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: Albinson, Dewey, 1898-1971
label: Interviewer
content: Nagle, Virginia
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Dewey Albinson (1898-1971) was an art administrator and painter from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 54 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 October 27
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.albins65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Dewey Albinson conducted 1965 October 27, by Virginia Nagle, for the Archives of American Art. Albinson describes his position as supervisor of Projects for the Minnesota State Department of Education. He speaks of the Minneapolis Handicraft Project; crafts by American Indians; artists and communism in New York City; Federal Art Project murals in St. Paul, Minnesota; and his relationship with Frances Densmore, Floyd Dell, Roland Mousseau, Will Norman, Benett Swanson, Forbes Watson, Charles Wells, and others.