Oral history interview with Edith Gregor Halpert
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2011 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hours, 14 minutes.
label: General
content: Transferred from original acetate tape reels.
label: General
content: Sound quality is poor.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Halpert, Edith Gregor, 1900-1970
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Downtown Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981
label: Names
content: Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960
label: Names
content: Goodrich, Lloyd, 1897-1987
label: Names
content: Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Women art dealers
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: Halpert, Edith Gregor, 1900-1970
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Edith Gregor Halpert (1900-1970) was an art dealer fromf New York, N.Y. Halpert founded Downtown Gallery.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 22 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 Jan. 20
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.halper65
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
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Edith Gregor Halpert conducted 1965 Jan. 20, by Harlan Phillips, for the Archives of American Art new deal and the Arts Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Halpert speaks of some of her activities in connection with the Federal Art Project, discusses some of the exhibitions that were shown, and gives her opinions on federal support for the arts. Halpert recalls Lloyd Goodrich, Holger Cahill, Dorothy Miller, Alfred Barr, and others.