Oral history interview with Don G. Abel
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 36 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Abel, Donald G.
label: Interviewer
content: Bestor, Dorothy K., 1913-
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Wash.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Hinckley, Robert H., 1891-
label: Names
content: Hopkins, Harry Lloyd, 1890-1946
label: Names
content: Inverarity, Robert Bruce, 1909-1999
label: Names
content: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Washington (State) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art and state
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
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: Abel, Donald G.
label: Interviewer
content: Bestor, Dorothy K., 1913-
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Don G. Abel was an art adminstrator with the Works Progress Administration, from Washington state.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 12 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 June 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.abel65
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
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Don G. Abel conducted 1965 June 10, by Dorothy Bestor, for the Archives of American Art. Abel describes his position as state administrator for the WPA in Washington state, the levels of organization within the WPA, and his relationship with Robert Hinckley, Harry Hopkins, and Robert Bruce Inverarity. He also speaks of Eleanor Roosevelt's visits to Seattle Art Projects and her interest in the work of women artists. He also discusses communist opposition to the WPA, federal appropriations, the transition from Federal Art Project to the Washington State Project and the accomplishments of the WPA.