Archives of American Art

Oral history interview with Clifford Amyx

Summary

Collection ID:
AAA.amyx82
Creators:
Amyx, Clifford, 1909-1997
Pennington, Estill Curtis
Dates:
1982 December 28
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
1 Item
sound file Sound recording
digital, wav file
13 Pages
Transcript
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
An interview of Clifford Amyx conducted 1982 December 28, by Buck Pennington, for the Archives of American Art.
Scope and Contents
Amyx speaks of moving around during his childhood due to his father's career; moving from Kentucky to Hollywood during the Depression to work on a sound stage for Warner Brothers but when he arrives the job is no longer available, so he enrolls in the San Francisco Art Institute; working in a coal yard Berkeley, California, where he met Joseph Danysh from the Federal Art Project; working as a graphic artist for the Federal Art Project as part of the Works Progress Administration in the Bay Area.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Clifford Amyx (1909-1997) was a painter and educator from Lexington, Kentucky.

Administration

Sponsor
Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.
Existence and Location of Copies
Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
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 others.

Digital Content


Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access
This transcript is open for research. Access to the entire recording is restricted. Contact Reference Services for more information.

More Information

General

General
Originally recorded as 1 cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 48 minutes.


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