Oral history interview with Glenn Anthony Wessels
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 9 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Wessels, Glenn A. (Glenn Anthony), 1895-
label: Interviewer
content: Ferbraché, Lewis
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Calif.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Wessels, Glenn A. (Glenn Anthony), 1895-
label: Interviewer
content: Ferbraché, Lewis
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Glenn Wessels (1895-1982) was the East Bay supervisor of the Federal Art Project (California) and educator in Berkeley, California. Wessels was born in Capetown, South Africa. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley. Wessels was a painter for the Federal Art Project in California during the Depression.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 44 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 February 14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wessel64
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The original transcript was edited. In 2021 the Archives retranscribed the original audio and attempted to create a verbatim transcript. This interview was audited and edited by Allison Tracy-Taylor in 2025.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Glenn Anthony Wessels conducted 1964 February 14, by Lewis Ferbraché, for the Archives of American Art.