Interview with Hugo Gellert
name: label: Interviewee
content: Gellert, Hugo, 1892-1985
label: Interviewer
content: Buhle, Paul, 1944-
label: Names
content: Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969
label: Names
content: Eastman, Max, 1883-1969
label: Names
content: Gold, Michael
label: Names
content: Reed, John, 1887-1920
label: Names
content: Young, Art, 1866-1943
topic: label: Topic
content: Political cartoons
label: Topic
content: Art and state
label: Topic
content: Art publishing
label: Topic
content: Muralists -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Political art
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1987 by Paul Buhle.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Gellert, Hugo, 1892-1985
label: Interviewer
content: Buhle, Paul, 1944-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), a painter, illustrator, and muralist, was a political artist based in New York, N.Y..
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 16 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1984 Apr. 4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.gellhugi
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content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Reproduction Note
content: Item is a transcript.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Original tape is owned by Paul Buhle.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A transcript of an interview with Hugo Gellert conducted 1984 Apr. 4 by Paul Buhle. Gellert speaks of his political cartoons and illustrations for New Masses, The New Yorker, The New York World, Elore, and other publications; his travels to Paris and Hungary; organizing Artists for Victory; the destruction of the Diego Rivera mural at Rockefeller Center and the subsequent artists' protest; his mural paintings; and his political activities.

He recalls the editors and artists associated with The Masses including Max Eastman, Floyd Dell, Michael Gold, John Reed and Art Young.