Oral history interview with Mildred Constantine
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 16 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Constantine, Mildred
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 (N.Y.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Baker, Jacob
label: Names
content: Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960
label: Names
content: Jewell, Edward Alden, 1888-1947
label: Names
content: McMahon, Audrey, 1900?-1981
topic: label: Occupation
content: Curators -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Art consultants -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Authors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Women museum curators
label: Topic
content: Women authors
label: Topic
content: Women art historians
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: Constantine, Mildred
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bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Mildred Constantine (1914-2008) was an art historian from New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 59 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 October 15
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.consta65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Mildred Constantine conducted 1965 October 15, by Harlan Phillips, for the Archives of American Art. Constantine speaks of the Federal Art Project in New York and its work; working for Audrey McMahon; the influx of foreign artists in the 1930s; the changes brought about in the art world because of the Federal Art Project. She recalls McMahon, Edward Alden Jewell, Holger Cahill and Jacob Baker.