Oral history interview with Henry Varnum Poor
odd: label: General
content: Sound has been lost on tape reel; reel discarded.
name: label: Creator
content: Poor, Henry Varnum, 1887-1970
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
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: Stanford University -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Stanford University -- Students
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content: Bruce, Edward, 1879-1943
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content: Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906
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content: Sickert, Walter, 1860-1942
topic: label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Topic
content: Educators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews
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content: Muralists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: World War, 1914-1918
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: Poor, Henry Varnum, 1887-1970
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Henry Varnum Poor (1887-1970) was a painter, mural painter, and educator in New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 30 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.poor64
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 3612 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Henry Varnum Poor conducted in 1964, by Harlan Phillips, for the Archives of American Art
label: Scope and Contents
content: Poor speaks of his youth in Chapman, Kansas; the artistic influence of his mother; his education at Stanford University; studying under Walter Sickert; going to Paris and to London; the influence of Cézanne; teaching at Stanford; World War I's influence on him; his work in pottery; meeting Edward Bruce; his mural decoration for the Department of Justice; his work on a post office mural; and his feelings about government support for the arts.