Oral history interview with Fred S. Bartlett
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 15 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Bartlett, Fred S. (Frederic Stewart), 1905-
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: Bear, Donald, 1905-1952
label: Names
content: Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960
label: Names
content: Caldwell, Gladys
label: Names
content: Mechau, Frank, 1904-1946
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Museum directors -- Colorado -- Colorado Springs -- Interviews
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: Bartlett, Fred S. (Frederic Stewart), 1905-
label: Interviewer
content: Loomis, Sylvia Glidden
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Frederic (Fred) Stewart Bartlett (1905-1988) was a museum director in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 39 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 November 11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bartle64
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
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 of Fred S. (Frederic Stewart) Bartlett conducted 1964 November 11, by Sylvia Loomis for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Bartlett speaks of his early life in Colorado; his early museum experience at the Denver Art Museum; the art centers started under the New Deal; unnoticed artists of America; the art of the banal; contemporary problems in museums. He recalls Donald Bear, Gladys Caldwell, Frank Mechau and Holger Cahill.