Oral history interview with Leslie Cheek interview
name: label: Creator
content: Cheek, Leslie, 1908-
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Museum directors -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Interviews
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.
creator: label: Creator
content: Cheek, Leslie, 1908-
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Leslie Cheek (1908-1992) was the director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in Richmond, Virginia.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 March 9
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cheek64
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Location of original tape unknown.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A summary by Richard Doud of an interview he conducted of Leslie Cheek for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Cheek discusses theatre in Virginia; the Federal Theatre Project; and the WPA.