Oral history interview with James Herbert Fitzgerald and Margaret Tomkins
name: label: Interviewee
content: FitzGerald, James, 1910-
label: Interviewer
content: Bestor, Dorothy K., 1913-
label: Interviewee
content: Tomkins, Margaret, 1916-
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
topic: label: Topic
content: Muralists -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- Washington (D.C.)
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: FitzGerald, James, 1910-
label: Interviewer
content: Bestor, Dorothy K., 1913-
label: Interviewee
content: Tomkins, Margaret, 1916-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: James Fitzgerald (1910- ) is a painter and mural painter from Washington state.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recordings, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 12 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 Oct. 27
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.fitzge65
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 available on line.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of James Fitzgerald conducted 1965 Oct. 27, by Dorothy Bestor, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Speaks of his work with Thomas Hart Benton; his work for the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP); his work on the murals at the Department of Justice with Boardman Robinson; and work on other Work Progress Administration art programs in Washington state. Fitzgerald's wife, artist Margaret Tomkins, is present during the interview and comments periodically.