Oral history interview with Ray Strong

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Oral history interview with Ray Strong

1993 September 14

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An interview of Ray Strong conducted 1993 September 14, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, at the artist's studio, in Santa Barbara, California. Strong discusses his family background and early art education; his move to San Francisco and contact with Jimmy Swinnerton, Maynard Dixon, and Frank Van Sloun; studying at California School of Fine Arts; his feeling of responsibility for art and nature; his murals at the Bohemian Club in San Francisco, 1934; and his involvement with socialist causes.

Transcript: 31 p.

Archives of American Art

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SNAC Resource ID: 7917157

Archives of American Art

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