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- Oral history interview with Lowell Houser, 1964 July 31
Oral history interview with Lowell Houser, 1964 July 31
Object Details
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- California
- Physical Description
- Sound recording: 1 Sound tape reel, 5 in.; 7 Pages, Transcript
- General Note
- An interview of Belle Baranceanu and Hilda Preibisius conducted by B. Hoag is also on this tape.
- Access Note / Rights
- Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
- Summary
- An interview of Lowell Houser conducted by Betty Hoag, on 1964 July 31, for the Archives of American Art.
- Interview conducted in San Diego, Calif. Houser speaks of his background; his art education; the influence of the Mexican muralists on his art; his involvement with the Federal Art Project working on murals at Iowa State College, a post office in Ames, Iowa, and other places; and his choices of subject matter for murals.
- Citation
- Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Lowell Houser, 1964 July 31. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Additional Forms
- Transcript available on line at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/houser64.htm
- Biography Note
- Painter, mural painter; Des Moines, Iowa; d. 1971.
- 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)13061
- (DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213575
- AAA_collcode_houser64
- interviewee
- Houser, Lowell, 1902-1971
- interviewer
- McGlynn, Betty Lochrie Hoag
- Subject
- New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Theme
- New Deal
- Topic
- Mural painting and decoration -- Iowa
- Federal aid to the arts
- Muralists -- Iowa -- Interviews
- Painters -- Iowa -- Interviews
- Theme
- New Deal
- Record ID
- AAADCD_oh_213575
- Usage
- Usage conditions apply
