Oral history interview with Eugenie Gershoy
name: label: Interviewee
content: Gershoy, Eugenie, 1901?-1983 or 6
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Flannagan, John Bernard, 1895?-1942
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Art and state
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
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: Gershoy, Eugenie, 1901?-1983 or 6
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Eugenie Gershoy (1901?-1983 or 6) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recordings, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 29 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 Oct. 15
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gersho64
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 available on line.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Eugenie Gershoy conducted 1964 Oct. 15, by Mary McChesney, for the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Gershoy speaks of her background and education; studying under John Flannagan at the Art Students League; working for the WPA Federal Art Project in New York City; sculptors she associated with; her involvement in protest demonstrations; her feelings about government support for the arts; and her post-FAP career.