Oral history interview with Ray Strong
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 30 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Strong, Ray, 1905-2006
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Names
content: Dixon, Maynard, 1875-1946
label: Names
content: Swinnerton, Jimmy, 1875-1974
label: Names
content: Van Sloun, Frank J., 1879-1938
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Muralists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Strong, Ray, 1905-2006
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ray Strong (1905-2006) was a painter and mural painter from San Francisco, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 31 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1993 September 14
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.strong93
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Ray Strong conducted 1993 September 14, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, at the artist's studio, in Santa Barbara, California. Strong discusses his family background and early art education; his move to San Francisco and contact with Jimmy Swinnerton, Maynard Dixon, and Frank Van Sloun; studying at California School of Fine Arts; his feeling of responsibility for art and nature; his murals at the Bohemian Club in San Francisco, 1934; and his involvement with socialist causes.