Oral history interview with Charles Barrows
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 29 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Barrows, Charles, 1903-1988
label: Interviewer
content: Loomis, Sylvia Glidden
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (N.M.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Public Works of Art Project
label: Names
content: Baumann, Gustave, 1881-1971
label: Names
content: Hunter, Russell Vernon, 1900-1955
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- New Mexico -- 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: Barrows, Charles, 1903-1988
label: Interviewer
content: Loomis, Sylvia Glidden
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Charles Barrows (1903-1988) was a printmaker in New Mexico.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 17 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 March 11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.barrow65
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: 35mm microfilm reel 3418 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
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 Charles Barrows conducted 1965 March 11, by Sylvia Loomis, for the Archives of American Art New Deal and the Arts Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Barrows speaks of his education at the Art Students League; moving to New Mexico; working on the Public Works of Art Project, and later on the Federal Art Project; public perception of the Federal Art Project; the effects of the Project on art and artists; making prints based on Indian paintings. He recalls Gustave Baumann and Vernon Hunter.