Oral history interview with Boris Gilbertson
odd: label: General
content: An unrelated interview of Gene Kloss conducted by S. Loomis is also on this tape.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Gilbertson, Boris, 1907-1982
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: Treasury Relief Art Project
topic: label: Topic
content: Art and state
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Animal sculptors -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Wisconsin -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview 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: Gilbertson, Boris, 1907-1982
label: Interviewer
content: Loomis, Sylvia Glidden
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sculptor; Santa Fe, N.M.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recordings (1 hour), 7 in.)
label: Extent
content: 33 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 June 25
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gilber64
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
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 3419 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Boris Gilbertson conducted 1964 June 25 by Sylvia Loomis for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Gilbertson speaks of his background; his education at the Art Institute of Chicago; starting out as a sculptor; his early involvement with the Treasury Relief Art Project; his work in Wisconsin for the project; how the Project functioned and how his work was supervised; the TRAP's effect on the politics of the time; his views of abstract art; the uses of humor in sculpture and in art; animal subject matter in his work.