Oral history interview with Dorr Bothwell
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 58 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Bothwell, Dorr
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
label: Names
content: Public Works of Art Project
label: Names
content: Clements, Grace, 1905-1969
label: Names
content: Feitelson, Lorser, 1898-1978
label: Names
content: Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973
topic: label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- California
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California
label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- California
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- California
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women educators
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content: Women printmakers
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Women muralists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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: Bothwell, Dorr
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Dorr Bothwell Mural (1902-2000) was a painter and printmaker from Joshua Tree, California. Charter member of the Society of San Francisco Women Artists. Co-wrote "Notan: the Dark-Light Principle of Design."
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 16 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 February 27
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bothwe65
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: 35mm microfilm reel 3949 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Dorr Bothwell conducted 1965 February 27, by Mary Fuller McChesney, for the Archives of American Art. Bothwell describes her education and art training in San Francisco; painting for the Public Works of Art Project; Federal Art Project murals in Los Angeles; effects of the federal projects on her artistic development; and friends and colleagues Grace Clements, Lorser Feitelson, and Stanton Macdonald-Wright.