Oral history interview with Monty Lewis
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav files. Duration is 49 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Lewis, Monty, 1907-1997
label: Interviewer
content: McGlynn, Betty Hoag
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Coronado School of Fine Arts
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- San Diego -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Muralists -- California -- San Diego -- Interviews
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: Lewis, Monty, 1907-1997
label: Interviewer
content: McGlynn, Betty Hoag
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Monty Lewis (1907-1997) was a painter, designer, muralist in New York and California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recordings, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 15 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 June 25
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lewis64
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/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/lewis64.htm
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Monty Lewis conducted 1964 June 25, by Betty Hoag, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview conducted at Coronado School of Fine Arts in San Diego, Calif. Lewis discusses his art training at the Art Students' League in N.Y., his study of mural and easel painting in Europe, and his freelance mural work before his involvement with the Public Works of Art Project. He describes the developing presence of mural art in New York with Diego Rivera's mural at Rockefeller Center and the 1939 New York World's Fair. Lewis tells of the Artists, Painters, and Sculptors Collaborators, a collaborative group interested in developing community art projects, and discusses the use of murals in the 1939 New York World's Fair and the different techniques used for those and other public projects.