Oral history interview with Alfred Victor Frankenstein
name: label: Interviewee
content: Frankenstein, Alfred V. (Alfred Victor), 1906-1981
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Calif.)
label: Names
content: Index of American Design
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Bufano, Beniamino, 1898-1970
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- California -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art and state
label: Topic
content: Coit Memorial Tower (San Francisco, Calif.)
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration
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: Frankenstein, Alfred V. (Alfred Victor), 1906-1981
label: Interviewer
content: McChesney, Mary Fuller
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Alfred Victor Frankenstein (1906-1981) was an art historian from San Francisco, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recording, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 21 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 Nov. 9
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.franke65
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: 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 Alfred Victor Frankenstein conducted 1965 Nov. 9, by Mary McChesney, for the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Frankenstein speaks of the WPA mural project and its value; problems with the project; Hans Hofmann's influence; the influence of surrealism; the Coit Tower murals and the controversy surrounding them; the easel painting project and its value; political problems with the Federal Art Project; the project's relevance to current problems; art in architecture; the Index of American Design. He recalls Beniamino Bufano.