Oral history interview with Marion Greenwood
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 11 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Greenwood, Marion, 1909-1970
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Treasury Relief Art Project
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration
label: Topic
content: Lithographers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Mosaicists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Muralists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Women artists
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: Greenwood, Marion, 1909-1970
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Marion Greenwood (1909-1970) was a painter, lithographer, mosaicist, fresco, and mural painter from New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 15 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 Jan. 31
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.greenw64
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
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Marion Greenwood conducted on 1964 Jan. 31, by Dorothy Seckler, for the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Greenwood speaks of her background and education; her mural work before joining the Treasury Relief Art Project; working on murals for the Red Hook Housing Project in Brooklyn, N.Y.; changing from murals to easel paintings; and her opinions regarding government support for the arts.