Oral history interview with Wellington Groves
odd: label: General
content: Sound quality is poor.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Groves, Wellington
label: Interviewer
content: Bestor, Dorothy K., 1913-
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Wash.)
label: Names
content: Index of American Design
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Inverarity, Robert Bruce, 1909-1999
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Interviews
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: Groves, Wellington
label: Interviewer
content: Bestor, Dorothy K., 1913-
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Wellington Groves was a painter and art administrator.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recording: (45 min.), 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 27 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 Apr. 23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.groves65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
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 Wellington Groves conducted 1965 Apr. 23, by Dorothy Bestor, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Groves speaks of working as an administrator in the Federal Art Project under Robert Bruce Inverarity; some of the work produced by the Project including dioramas and hooked rugs; the Index of American Design; and the benefits of government support for the arts.