Oral history interview with Edward Warder Rannells
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 7 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Rannells, Edward Warder, 1892-1972
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Art Institute of Chicago -- Student
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: The Ohio State University -- Students
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content: United States. Work Projects Administration
label: Names
content: University of Chicago -- Students
label: Names
content: University of Kentucky -- Students
label: Names
content: Amyx, Clifford, 1909-1997
label: Names
content: Long, Frank W.
label: Names
content: McVey, Frank LeRond, 1869-1953
topic: label: Topic
content: Authors -- Kentucky -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
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: Rannells, Edward Warder, 1892-1972
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Edward Warder Rannells (1892-1972) was a writer from Lexington, Ky.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 19 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 June 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rannel65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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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 Edward Warder Rannells conducted 1965 June 2, by Harlan Phillips, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Rannells speaks of his childhood; travels through mid- and far-West; art training at Ohio State in Columbus; Art Institute of Chicago; University of Kentucky at Lexington; Walter Siple, director of Cincinnati Art Museum; WPA and Federal Art Project in Lexington, Ky.; Master's degree in education at University of Chicago; careers of former students; B.A. program at University of Kentucky; his relationship with his father; religion; ballet; development of his art career; his interest in psychology; modern dance; the establishment of a humanities program; and trends in painting. He mentions Anna Louise Rice, Richard O'Hanlon, Frank L. McVey, Frank W. Long, Clifford Amyx, and Carl Lampert.