Archives of American Art

Oral history interview with Marion Greenwood

Summary

(Electronic Resource)

Oral history interview with Marion Greenwood, 1964 Jan. 31, Transcript
Collection ID:
AAA.greenw64
Creators:
Greenwood, Marion, 1909-1970
Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
Dates:
1964 Jan. 31
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
15 Pages
Transcript
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
An interview of Marion Greenwood conducted on 1964 Jan. 31, by Dorothy Seckler, for the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project.
Scope and Contents
Greenwood speaks of her background and education; her mural work before joining the Treasury Relief Art Project; working on murals for the Red Hook Housing Project in Brooklyn, N.Y.; changing from murals to easel paintings; and her opinions regarding government support for the arts.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Marion Greenwood (1909-1970) was a painter, lithographer, mosaicist, fresco, and mural painter from New York, N.Y.

Administration

Immediate Source of Acquisition
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.

Digital Content

(Electronic Resource)

Oral history interview with Marion Greenwood, 1964 Jan. 31, Transcript

(Sound Recording)

Oral history interview with Marion Greenwood, 1964 Jan. 31, Digital Sound Recording (Excerpt)

More Information

General

General
Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 11 min.

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