Oral history interview with Charlotte Russell Partridge
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 40 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Partridge, Charlotte Russell
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Wis.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Wisconsin
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Wisconsin
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women educators
label: Topic
content: Women arts administrators
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: Partridge, Charlotte Russell
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Charlotte Russell Partridge (1882-1975) was a painter and educator, in Milwaukee, Wis. Cofounded the Layton School of Art in 1920.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 59 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1965
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.partri65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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 Charlotte Russell Partridge conducted circa 1965, by Harlan Phillips, for the Archives of American Art New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project. Partridge talks about teaching at Downer College; forming the Layton School of Art in Wisconsin during the 1920's; her work as director of the Federal Arts Project in Wisconsin; trips to Mexico; and about various individuals involved in WPA art programs, such as Holger Cahill, Edward Bruce and Tom Parker.