Oral history interview with José Moya del Pino
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hrs., 57 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Moya del Pino, José, 1891-1969
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Creator
content: Moya del Pino , Helen, 1898-1975
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Calif.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Arnautoff, Victor Mikhail, 1896-1979
label: Names
content: Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
topic: label: Topic
content: Coit Memorial Tower (San Francisco, Calif.)
label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Muralists -- California -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Hispanic American artists
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.
label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Moya del Pino, José, 1891-1969
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Creator
content: Moya del Pino , Helen, 1898-1975
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: José Moya del Pino (1891-1969) was a Spanish born painter and mural painter from California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 50 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 Sept. 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.moyade64
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The original transcript was edited. In 2021 the Archives retranscribed the original audio and attempted to create a verbatim transcript. This interview was audited and edited by Ellen Brooks in 2025.
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 José Moya del Pino conducted 1964 Sept. 10, by Mary McChesney, for the New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Moya del Pino speaks of his youth in Spain, and his education in Rome and in Paris; meeting Matisse; moving to San Francisco and taking up portraiture there; starting with the Federal Art Project (FAP) and working on a mural at Coit Tower; political problems with the murals and other work done under the FAP; painting a mural in a post office in Alpine, Tex., and other murals; how work was assigned; his mural for the Social Security Building in Washington, D.C.; and his feelings about government support for the arts and how it should be administered. He recalls Diego Rivera and Victor Arnautoff.