Oral history interview with Ina Sizer Cassidy
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: Cassidy, Ina Sizer, 1869-1965
label: Interviewer
content: Loomis, Sylvia Glidden
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (N.M.)
label: Names
content: Federal Writers' Project (N.M.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Public Works of Art Project
label: Names
content: Cassidy, Gerald, 1879-1934
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe
label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe
label: Occupation
content: Authors -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women authors
label: Topic
content: Women muralists
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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Cassidy, Ina Sizer, 1869-1965
label: Interviewer
content: Loomis, Sylvia Glidden
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ina Sizer Cassidy (1869-1965) was a painter and writer in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 26 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 February 13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cassid64
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content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 3418 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 Ina Sizer Cassidy conducted by Sylvia Loomis on 1964 February 13 for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Cassidy speaks of her husband Gerald Cassidy, including his background and education; the arts community in Santa Fe in the 1920s; Cassidy's first involvement in the Public Works of Art Project making murals for a federal building in Santa Fe; his death from carbon monoxide poisoning; and his feelings about the PWAP and about government support for the arts. She speaks of her own painting career and her work as head of the WPA Writers Project in New Mexico.