Oral history interview with Ben E. Shute
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav files. Duration is 32 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Shute, Ben E., 1905-1986
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Art Institute of Chicago
label: Names
content: High Museum of Art
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Bush-Brown, Margaret Lesley, 1857-1944
label: Names
content: Halsey, William, 1915-1999
label: Names
content: Harris, Julian H.
label: Names
content: Jackson, Wendell
label: Names
content: Shorter, Edward
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- 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: Shute, Ben E., 1905-1986
label: Interviewer
content: Doud, Richard Keith
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ben E. Shute (1905-1986) was a painter in Atlanta, Georgia.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 June 4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.shute65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Ben E. Shute conducted 1965 June 4, by Richard Doud, for the Archives of American Art. Shute speaks of coming from the Art Institute of Chicago to teach at the High Museum of Art; how in terms of art in 1928 in Atlanta, it was considered a dark age, due to the fact that art was hardly being taught anywhere; how he had little to do with the WPA, but felt it helped the arts in Georgia a great deal; his major interests in the art field; and the state of art in Georgia. Shute recalls Julian H. Harris, Wendell Jackson, Margaret Bush-Brown, Edward Shorter, Bill Halsey, and others.