Oral history interview with Beaumont Newhall
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 21 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-1993
label: Interviewer
content: Trovato, Joseph S., 1912-1983
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal art project (Mass.)
label: Names
content: George Eastman House
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: United States. Farm Security Administration. Historical Section
label: Names
content: Blatas, Arbit
label: Names
content: Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973
label: Names
content: Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- Interviews
label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Photography
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: Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-1993
label: Interviewer
content: Trovato, Joseph S., 1912-1983
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Beaumont Newhall (1908-1993) was an art administrator and art historian from Rochester, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 23 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 Jan. 23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.newhal65
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 Beaumont Newhall conducted 1965 Jan. 23, by Joseph Trovato, for the Archives of American Art. Newhall speaks of his education and first jobs in museums; his administration of the WPA Federal Art Project in Massachusetts; Berenice Abbott's photographs of New York; and the Farm Security Administration's photography project. He speaks of early photography and William Henry Fox Talbot; photography and the Armory Show; the 1937 photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and Edward Steichen; and the George Eastman House. Newhall comments on museums accepting photography as art; the amateur photographer versus the artistic photographer; and his view of photography as a discoverer and a "partaker" of nature.