Oral history interview with Anton Blazek
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 22 min.
name: label: Creator
content: Blazek, Anton James, 1902-1974
label: Interviewer
content: McGlynn, Betty Hoag
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Ebstrom, David
label: Names
content: Feitelson, Lorser, 1898-1978
label: Names
content: Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Art and state
label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- Los Angeles -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- California -- Los Angeles -- 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: Creator
content: Blazek, Anton James, 1902-1974
label: Interviewer
content: McGlynn, Betty Hoag
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Anton Blazek (1902-1974) was a painter and sculptor in Los Angeles, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 52 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 April 13
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.blazek65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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: Blazek speaks of his childhood in Baltimore; early art and music training; commercial art; ceramics; working with aluminum; his move to Los Angeles; works completed for federal projects; his paintings of California missions; the lack of government censorship; and the value of federal projects. He recalls David Ebstrom, Lorser Feitelson, and Stanton Macdonald-Wright.