Oral history interview with Mildred Constantine

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Oral history interview with Mildred Constantine

1965 October 15

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An interview of Mildred Constantine conducted 1965 October 15, by Harlan Phillips, for the Archives of American Art. Constantine speaks of the Federal Art Project in New York and its work; working for Audrey McMahon; the influx of foreign artists in the 1930s; the changes brought about in the art world because of the Federal Art Project. She recalls McMahon, Edward Alden Jewell, Holger Cahill and Jacob Baker.

Sound recording: 2 sound tape reels ; 7 in.Transcript: 59 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7559424

Archives of American Art

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New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project.

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Federal Art Project (N.Y.)

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Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-

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Baker, Jacob, 1817-1896

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Baker (1895-1967) was managing director of Vanguard Press from 1926-1933. He was an official with the Federal Emergency Relief, Civil Works, and Works Progress Administrations from 1933-1937 and was chairman of the U.S. Inquiry on Cooperative Enterprise from 1936-1937. Baker was president of the United Federal Workers of America from 1937-1940 and during World War II was a planning consultant to the Federal Works Agency. He later became chairman of the board of the Economic Forecasting Institute...

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. ...

Constantine, Mildred.

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Mildred Constantine is an author and former Associate Curator at MOMA. From the description of Research papers regarding Tina Modotti, 1920-1993. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81773320 Mildred Constantine, d. 2008, Art historian of New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Mildred Constantine, 1976 May 3-1976 Aug. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397243 Mildred Constantine (1914-2008) was an art historian f...

Jewell, Edward Alden, 1888-1947

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McMahon, Audrey, 1900?-1981

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Audrey McMahon served under Holger Cahill as Regional Director for the WPA Federal Art Project for New York and New Jersey from 1935 to 1939. She died at age 87 in 1981. From the description of Audrey McMahon papers, 1935-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81040901 From the guide to the Audrey McMahon papers, 1935-1980, (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution) McMahon served under Holger Cahill as Regional Director of the WPA Federal Art Project for New...