Oral history interview with Irvin Shope
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 58 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Shope, Irvin
label: Interviewer
content: McGlynn, Betty Hoag
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Shope, Irvin
label: Interviewer
content: McGlynn, Betty Hoag
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Irvin Shope (1900-1977) was a painter and commercial artist.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Sound tape reels (Sound recording, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 59 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 November 27
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.shope65
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
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The original transcript was edited. In 2021 the Archives retranscribed the original audio and attempted to create a verbatim transcript. This interview was audited and edited by Allison Tracy-Taylor in 2025.
altformavail: 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 with Irvin Shope conducted 1965 November 27, by Betty Hoag McGlynn, for the Archives of American Art.