Oral history interview with Joseph A. Danysh

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project.

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Federal Art Project (Calif.)

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The Federal Art Project (FAP) fell under the jurisdiction of Federal Project No. 1 of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA was established in May 1935 specifically as a work relief program for the millions of individuals left unemployed during the Depression. Its name changed to the Work Projects Administration in 1939 when it fell under the administrative hand of the newly created Federal Works Agency. The FAP was created in August 1935 to aid unemployed artists, following the prece...

Bufano, Beniamino, 1898-1970

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Beniamino Bufano, a sculptor, was born in San Fele, Italy in 1886, and the fourteenth of fifteen children. He immigrated to New York with his family when he was a boy. As an adult he lived all over the world, but mostly in San Francisco. He married in 1925 to Virginia Bufano Lewin. They had one son Erskine. Virginia and Bufano divorced in 1932. Sponsors included Albert Bender and Trader Vic Bergeron. Bufano died in 1970 in San Francisco. From the description of Beniamino Bufano autob...

Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 1890-1973

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American artist; co-founder of the Synchromism movement. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [postmarked Santa Monica], to Morgan Russell, 1929 Aug. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606816 Painter; Los Angeles, California. From the description of Oral history interview with Stanton Macdonald-Wright, 1967 May 26 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81393723 "Noted American painter Stanton Macdonald-Wright ... was hired to p...

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984

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Ansel Adams, American photographer, was born February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. He was tutored privately at home where he studied piano, San Francisco, from 1914 to 1927, then studied photography with the photofinisher Frank Dittman, in San Francisco, in 1916 and 1917. He married Virginia Best in 1928, and had two children, Michael and Anne. Adams began his career as a photographer, 1927, and worked as a commercial photographer, from 1930 to 1960. He was a photography correspond...

Gaskin, William, 1892-1968

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William Gaskin, b. 1892; d. 1968, Art administrator of San Francisco, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with William Gaskin, 1964 Feb. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312025808 Art administrator; San Francisco, California. From the description of William Gaskin interviews, 1964 Feb. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220194214 ...

Ferbraché, Lewis

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Danysh, Joseph A., 1906-

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Died 1984. From the description of Federal art : a memoir of the thirties, [ca. 1980]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515808 Art administrator; Monterey, Calif. From the description of Joseph A. Danysh interview, 1964 Dec. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220192845 From the description of Oral history interview with Joseph A. Danysh, 1964 Dec. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312025467 ...

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Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960

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Writer, art director. From the description of Reminiscences of Holger Cahill : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309729309 Art administrator; New York, N.Y. National director of Federal Art Project, administered under Federal Project No. 1 of the Works Progress Administration (later the Work Projects Administration). The FAP provided work to unemployed artists. Cahill was the director throughout its existence. ...

Zakheim, Bernard Baruch, 1898-1985.

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Mural painter, sculptor; California. From the description of Bernard Zakheim papers, [ca. 1930-1977]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122576677 Painter, mural painter, sculptor; Sebastopol, California. From the description of Bernard B. Zakheim interview, 1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220197740 Painter, mural painter, sculptor; Sebastopol, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Bernard B. Zakheim, 1964. (Unknown). Wo...