Reminiscences of Holger Cahill : oral history, 1957.

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Reminiscences of Holger Cahill : oral history, 1957.

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Early life in North Dakota, wanderings and odd jobs; arrival in New York City, newspaper work, Greenwich Village; New York art world in the 1920s; folk art; Americana; collecting; Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; politics in art; the Depression; relief for artists; Federal Arts Project; New York World's Fair; art, especially abstract expressionism, since 1943. Oral history includes brief interviews with Dorothy Canning Miller (Mrs. Miller) and Clair Laning.

Transcript: 622 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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