Oral history interview with Joseph Hirsch
odd: label: General
content: An unrelated interview of Louis Schanker conducted by H. Phillips is also on this tape.
name: label: Creator
content: Hirsch, Joseph, 1910-1981
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project
label: Names
content: Index of American Design
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960
label: Names
content: Curran, Mary
label: Names
content: McMahon, Audrey, 1900?-1981
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Lithographers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Interviews
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: Creator
content: Hirsch, Joseph, 1910-1981
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bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, lithographer; New York, N.Y. and Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Sound recording: 1 sound tape reel, 7 in. ;  (24 p. transcript on partial microfilm reel)
label: Extent
content: 26 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hirsch65
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: 35mm microfilm reel 3949 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
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 Joseph Hirsch conducted by Harlan Phillips in 1965 for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Hirsch speaks of his early education and background in industrial art; his first involvement with the Federal Art Project, including the easel painting project, murals, and the Index of American Design; artistic experimentation during the 1930s; public perception of federally suuported art projects. He recalls Holger Cahill, Audrey McMahon and Mary Curran.