Oral history interview with Dorothy Cravath
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 55 min.
name: label: Creator
content: Cravath, Dorothy, 1901-1974
label: Interviewer
content: Martin, Minette
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
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content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: University of California, San Francisco. School of Fine Arts
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content: Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
topic: label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration
label: Topic
content: Coit Memorial Tower (San Francisco, Calif.)
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
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: Creator
content: Cravath, Dorothy, 1901-1974
label: Interviewer
content: Martin, Minette
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Dorothy Cravath (1901-1974) was a mural painter in San Francisco, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 18 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964 May 13 and 27
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cravat64
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Dorothy Cravath conducted 1964 May 13 and May 27, by Minette Martin for the Archives of American Art. 

Interview conducted at the home of Leota Molten in Berkeley, California. Cravath speaks of her youth and art education at the California School of Fine Arts; painting murals for the Federal Art Project; and restoring the murals at Coit Tower. She recalls Diego Rivera and discusses his influence on muralists.