Oral history interview with Louis Bunce
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 4 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Bunce, Louis, 1907-1983
label: Interviewer
content: Bestor, Dorothy K., 1913-
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Oregon -- Portland
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- Oregon
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Oregon
label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- Oregon -- Portland
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
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: Interviewee
content: Bunce, Louis, 1907-1983
label: Interviewer
content: Bestor, Dorothy K., 1913-
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Louis Bunce (1907-1983) was a painter, printmaker, educator, and mural painter in Portland, Oregon.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 36 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 October 29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bunce65
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 3949 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 Louis Bunce conducted 1965 October 29, by Dorothy Bestor, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Bunce speaks of his early art training; WPA mural projects he was involved in; the Northwest art scene in the 1930s; his WPA colleagues; how subject matter was selected for the murals; public perception of the project; the dispersal of the work produced by the Federal Art Project; leaving the Northwest, going to New York and getting on the mural project there; and the project's impact on the careers of artists.