Oral history interview with Chuzo Tamotzu
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 40 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Tamotsu, Chūzō, 1888-1975
label: Interviewer
content: Loomis, Sylvia Glidden
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: An American Group (Organization)
label: Names
content: Artists Equity Association
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Eddy, Stuart
label: Names
content: Force, Juliana, 1876-1948
label: Names
content: Knight, Frederic C., 1898-1979
label: Names
content: Mandelman, Beatrice
label: Names
content: Philipp, Robert, 1895-1981
label: Names
content: Ribak, Louis, 1902-1979
label: Names
content: Rush, Olive, 1873-1966
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
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content: Painting, Japanese
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content: Asian American art
label: Topic
content: Asian American artists
label: Topic
content: Arts, Japanese -- Western influences
label: Topic
content: Painting, Asian
label: Topic
content: Japanese American art
label: Topic
content: Japanese American artists
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content: Asian American painters
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: Tamotsu, Chūzō, 1888-1975
label: Interviewer
content: Loomis, Sylvia Glidden
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Chuzo Tamotzu (1888-1975) was a Japanese American painter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tamotzu was born in Japan and came to the United States in 1920. He moved to Santa Fe in 1948.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 September 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.tamots64
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 Chuzo Tamotzu (Tamotsu) conducted 1964 September 3 by Sylvia Loomis for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Tamotzu discusses studying Occidental, Oriental art in Japan; traveling to Korea, Manchuria and China, South Sea Islands, Singapore, then Europe for a year; coming to New York in 1920; his involvement with An American Group; Juliana Force recruiting him for the Federal Art Project; being on the Easel Project and also on the Graphic Art Project; the Works Projects Administration; given "pink-slip" on the Project since he was not a U.S. citizen; stint in the U.S. Army, Office of Strategic Service doing propaganda paintings for psychological war material for the Japanese Army and soldiers; settling in Santa Fe, N.M.; Oriental painting; and Artist Equity Association. Tamotzu mentions Beatrice Mandelman, Louis Ribak, Robert Philip, Stuart Eddy, Frederick Knight, and Olive Rush.