Oral history interview with Juan Menchaca
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 41 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Menchaca, Juan, 1910-1999
label: Interviewer
content: Loomis, Sylvia Glidden
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: United States. Government Printing Office -- Denver -- Colorado
label: Names
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
topic: label: Topic
content: Dioramas
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Colorado -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
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: Menchaca, Juan, 1910-1999
label: Interviewer
content: Loomis, Sylvia Glidden
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Juan Menchaca (1910-1999) was a painter from Colorado.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 Nov. 11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mencha64
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 Juan Menchaca conducted 1964 Nov. 11, by Sylvia Loomis, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Menchaca discusses painting portraits and making dioramas about the history of Colorado, for the State Museum, in Denver, as part of the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project, ca. 1936-1941; his work as a camouflage instructor during WWII; and helping to establish the Denver field office of the Government Printing Office.