Oral history interview with Herman Cherry
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 8 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Cherry, Herman
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
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: Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
label: Names
content: Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Lithographers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Artisans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Educators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Decorative arts
label: Topic
content: Muralists -- New York (State) -- New York -- 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: Cherry, Herman
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Herman Cherry (1909-1992) was a painter, mural painter, lithographer, craftsman, writer, and teacher in New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 44 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 September
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cherry65
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: 35mm microfilm reel 3949 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
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 Herman Cherry conducted 1965 September, by Harlan Phillips. Cherry speaks of his background and education; the Depression's effect on him; his first association with the WPA Federal Art Project; working for Stanton Macdonald-Wright; how the project functioned; trying to create an "American style" in painting; the team approach to creating murals; the effect of the project on individual artists and their styles; experimenting with materials; unions and political problems; social interaction between artists on the project; the current art market; his overall view of the Federal Art Project. He recalls Thomas Hart Benton.