Archives of American Art

Oral history interview with Ben E. Shute

Summary

Collection ID:
AAA.shute65
Creators:
Shute, Ben E., 1905-1986
Doud, Richard Keith
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
Dates:
1965 June 4
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
11 Pages
Transcript
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
An interview of Ben E. Shute conducted 1965 June 4, by Richard Doud, for the Archives of American Art. Shute speaks of coming from the Art Institute of Chicago to teach at the High Museum of Art; how in terms of art in 1928 in Atlanta, it was considered a dark age, due to the fact that art was hardly being taught anywhere; how he had little to do with the WPA, but felt it helped the arts in Georgia a great deal; his major interests in the art field; and the state of art in Georgia. Shute recalls Julian H. Harris, Wendell Jackson, Margaret Bush-Brown, Edward Shorter, Bill Halsey, and others.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Ben E. Shute (1905-1986) was a painter in Atlanta, Georgia.

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


Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access
Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.

More Information

General

General
Originally recorded 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav files. Duration is 32 min.


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Bush-Brown, Margaret Lesley, 1857-1944 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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