Oral history interview with Kenneth M. Adams, 1964 April 23

Object Details

Place of publication, production, or execution

New Mexico

Physical Description

21 Pages, Transcript

General Note

Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 51 min.

Access Note / Rights

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Summary

An interview of Kenneth Miller Adams conducted 1964 April 23, by Sylvia Glidden Loomis, for the Archives of American Art.

Adams discusses his involvement with federal art projects in Taos, New Mexico, including easel painting and mural painting for the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP) and the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP). He describes the contracts and methods of TRAP; he recalls Gustave Baumann, George Biddle, Emil J. Bisttram, Raymond Jonson, Willard Nash, and other associated with the federal projects of the WPA. He also reflects on his role as artist-in-residence at the University of New Mexico.

Citation

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Kenneth M. Adams, 1964 April 23. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Funding

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.

Biography Note

Kenneth M. Adams (1897-1966) was a painter, mural painter, and educator from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Language Note

English .

Provenance

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.

Location Note

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001

Data Source

Archives of American Art

Record number

(DSI-AAA_CollID)11704

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213341

AAA_collcode_adams64

interviewee

Adams, Kenneth M.

interviewer

Loomis, Sylvia Glidden

Subject

Baumann, Gustave

Biddle, George

Bisttram, Emil

Jonson, Raymond

Nash, Willard Ayer

Treasury Relief Art Project

Federal Art Project (N.M.)

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project

Type

Sound recordings

Interviews

Theme

New Deal

Topic

Federal aid to the arts

Mural painting and decoration -- New Mexico

Public art -- New Mexico

Muralists -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque -- Interviews

Theme

New Deal

Record ID

AAADCD_oh_213341

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