Oral history interview with Henri Marceau
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 56 min.
label: General
content: Sound quality is poor.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Marceau, Henri, 1896-1969
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Philadelphia Museum of Art
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content: United States. Works Progress Administration
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content: Curran, Mary
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
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: Marceau, Henri, 1896-1969
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Henri Marceau (1896-1969) was an art administrator and art historian in Philadelphia, Pa.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 17 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 September 11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.marcea60
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
altformavail: 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 Henri Marceau conducted 1964 September 11, by Richard Doud, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Marceau discusses his education in architecture; teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, becoming curator of the Johnson collection and its movement to the Philadelphia Museum of Art; his museum career; Federal art projects; the WPA under Mary Curran and the problems she had with the Artists' Union; Albert Barnes' role in the controversy; and the reaction of the public and press.