Oral history interview with Roy Moyer
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hr., 16 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Moyer, Roy, 1921-2007
label: Interviewer
content: Barrie, Dennis
label: Names
content: American Federation of Arts
label: Names
content: Columbia University -- Students
label: Names
content: UNICEF
label: Names
content: United States. Army
label: Names
content: University of Oslo -- Students
label: Names
content: University of Toronto -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Weyhe Gallery
label: Names
content: Dickinson, Martha
label: Names
content: Neuberger, Roy R.
label: Names
content: Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-
label: Names
content: Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975
label: Names
content: Weyhe, Erhard
place: label: Place
content: Greece -- description and travel
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching
label: Topic
content: Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Music -- Instruction and study
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: World War, 1939-1945
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Moyer, Roy, 1921-2007
label: Interviewer
content: Barrie, Dennis
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Roy Moyer (1921-2007) was a painter and art administrator from New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Items (Sound recording: 4 sound files (4 hr., 16 min.), digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 82 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1975 September 17-23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.moyer75
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
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: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Roy Moyer, conducted September 17-23, 1975, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution at Moyer's New York City apartment.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Moyer speaks of his childhood, parents, and early music and art training in Allentown, Pennsylvania; his education at Columbia University and the University of Oslo; joining the Army during World War II; teaching English in Greece during its civil war; teaching at the University of Toronto; consulting on educational TV programs; working in the Weyhe Gallery; his management practices and overseeing exhibitions, the film program, and various other initiatives as director of the American Federation of Arts; his painting practice; the growth in the number of art organizations in the 1960s and '70s; and his transition to working for UNICEF. Moyer also recalls Lionel Trilling, Meyer Schapiro, Martha Dickinson, Erhard Weyhe, Roy Neuberger, and others.