Oral history interview with Joseph A. Danysh
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 43 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Danysh, Joseph A., 1906-1982
label: Interviewer
content: Ferbraché, Lewis
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Calif.)
label: Names
content: Group f.64
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984
label: Names
content: Bufano, Beniamino, 1898-1970
label: Names
content: Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960
label: Names
content: Gaskin, William, 1892-1968
label: Names
content: Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973
label: Names
content: Zakheim, Bernard Baruch, 1898-1985
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Art and state
label: Topic
content: Art criticism
label: Topic
content: Arts administrators -- California -- Interviews
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: Danysh, Joseph A., 1906-1982
label: Interviewer
content: Ferbraché, Lewis
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Joseph A. Danysh (1906-1982) was an art administrator from Monterey, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 33 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 December 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.danysh64
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 3418 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 Joseph A. Danysh conducted by Lewis Ferbraché on 1964 December 3 for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Danysh speaks of his background and education at Columbia University; moving to California; starting a gallery in a store in San Francisco; critics' reaction to the art in the gallery; the beginning of the f64 photography group; opening a short lived gallery with Ansel Adams; writing an art column; starting out with the Federal Art Project, directing the project in Northern California; how the project was administered; particular projects he was involved in; his feelings about government support for the arts. He recalls Beniamino Bufano, Holger Cahill, William Gaskin, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Bernard Zakheim.