Archives of American Art

Oral history interview with Margery Hoffman Smith

Summary

Collection ID:
AAA.smith61
Creators:
Smith, Margery Hoffman, 1888-1981
Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
Dates:
1961
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
31 Pages
Transcript
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
An interview of Margery Hoffman Smith conducted in 1961 by Harlan Phillips for the Archives of American Art.
Scope and Contents
Smith speaks of her work with the Federal Art Project in Oregon, working on the design for Timberline Lodge, a ski lodge built under the authority of the WPA in the 1940s.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Margery Hoffman Smith (1888-1981) was a painter, craftsman, and interior decorator from San Francisco, California. Smith was art director for the Timberline Lodge project on Mount Hood, Oregon, which was built under the authority of the WPA in the 1940s. She became the assistant state director of the Federal Art Project in Oregon.

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


More Information

General

General
Originally recorded 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 45 min.
General
Sound quality is extremely poor.


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