Oral history interview with Merlin F. Pollock
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 40 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Pollock, Merlin F., 1905-1996
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Art Institute of Chicago
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Ill.)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- United States -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration, American -- Illinois -- Chicago
label: Topic
content: Arts administrators -- Illinois -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Muralists -- United States -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Pollock, Merlin F., 1905-1996
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Merlin F. Pollock (1905-1996) was a painter and teacher, Chicago, Ill.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Items (sound files, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 65 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979 July 30 and 1980 July 30
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.polloc79
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 with Merlin F. Pollock conducted 1979 July 30 and 1980 July 30, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art. Pollock speaks of his training at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Fontainebleau, France; his work as instructor of mural painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1935-1943; his paintings of Alaska commissioned by the government in 1937 and his work as supervisor of mural painting for the Illinois WPA, 1940-1943. He also discusses Chicago artists and his own murals for the government.