Oral history interview with Constance Ortmayer
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Ortmayer, Constance, 1902-1988
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Florida
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- Florida
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women educators
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.
label: Provenance
content: This interview is 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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Ortmayer, Constance, 1902-1988
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Constance Ortmayer (1902-1988) was a sculptor and educator, from Winter Park, Fla.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 23 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 June 9
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ortmay65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The original transcript was edited. In 2021 the Archives retranscribed the original audio and attempted to create a verbatim transcript. Additional information from the original transcript that seemed relevant was added in brackets and given an –Ed. attribution. This interview was audited and edited by Ellen Brooks in 2024.
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 of Constance Ortmayer conducted 1965 June 9, by Richard K. Doud, for the Archives of American Art New Deal and the Arts Project.