Oral history interview with Richard Hood
odd: label: General
content: Sound quality is poor.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Hood, Richard, 1910-
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Pa.)
label: Names
content: Index of American Design
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Art and state
label: Topic
content: Designers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 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: Hood, Richard, 1910-
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Administrator, designer, printmaker; Philadelphia, Pa.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recording (1 hour), 7 in.)
label: Extent
content: 23 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 Dec. 15
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hood64
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 at http://www.aaa.si.edu/oralhist/hood64.htm
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Richard Hood conducted by Richard Doud on 1964 Dec. 15 for the Archives of American Art, as part of the Oral History Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Hood speaks of joining the Federal Art Project; the development of a graphic arts section of the program; the events leading up to his becoming state director for the FAP in Pennsylvania; for the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project. how projects were assigned and work carried out; the Index of American Design in Pennsylvania, and particularly its study of Pennsylvania Dutch design; budget and administrative problems; political problems and public perception of the Project; his post-FAP career; his opinions about government support for the arts.