Oral history interview with Charles W. White
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 17 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: White, Charles (1918-1979)
label: Interviewer
content: McGlynn, Betty Hoag
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
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content: Federal Art Project
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content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Educators -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
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content: Mural painting and decoration -- United States
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content: Art -- Philosophy
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content: African American artists
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content: African American painters
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content: African American military personnel
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content: African American educators
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: White, Charles (1918-1979)
label: Interviewer
content: McGlynn, Betty Hoag
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Charles W. (Wilbert) White (1918-1979) was a painter and educator from Los Angeles, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 27 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 March 9
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.white65
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
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content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Charles Wilbert White conducted 1965 March 9, by Betty Hoag, for the Archives of American Art. White speaks of his youth in Chicago and early interest in art; early encounters with racism; his early training in art; working on the Federal Art Project; his U.S. Army service; going to Mexico; his ventures in graphic arts; subject matter which inspires him; coming to California; the politics of government subsidy of the arts; and mural projects he worked on. He recalls Harry Sternberg.