Oral history interview with Don Freeman

Freeman, Don, 1908-1978

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Don Freeman was born August 11, 1908, in San Diego, CA. He attended the Art Students League in New York City for two years. In 1931 he married Lydia Cooley, an art student, and the couple had one son. Don Freeman worked as a freelance artist and as a graphic artist for the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune before beginning to illustrate books in the 1940s. In 1940 he illustrated William Saroyan's My Name is Aram . During his career, Don Freeman illustrated children's books by other well...

United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project.

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McGlynn, Betty Hoag

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Collector of, authority on early California art; San Mateo, California. Full name Betty Lochrie Hoag McGlynn. At the time these papers were microfilmed, McGlynn was married to architect Paul Sterling Hoag. She is married to Thomas A. McGlynn, Jr. Her father-in-law was painter Thomas A. McGlynn (1878-1966), whose biography Betty McGlynn wrote in 1979. From the description of Betty Hoag McGlynn papers, 1934-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565871 Collector of and author...

Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956

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Jackson Pollock was born in 1912, in Cody, Wyoming, the youngest of five sons. His family moved several times during his childhood, finally settling in Los Angeles. In 1930 he joined his older brother, Charles, in New York City, and studied with Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York. Pollock worked during the 1930s for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. During 1936 he worked in artist David Alfaro Siqueiros's Experimental Workshop. In...

Sloan, John, 1871-1951

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Illustrator, painter, etcher, teacher, writer, lithographer; lived in New York City and Santa Fe, N.M. From the description of John Sloan manuscript collection, 1871-1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 775599666 Painter, etcher, illustrator, teacher, writer, and lithographer; lived in New York City and Santa Fe, N.M.; John Sloan and Will Shuster, painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and sculptor, first met in the summer of 1920, their friendship lasted until Sloan's death ...

Tolegian, Manuel J. (Manuel Jerair), 1911-1983

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Painter; Sherman Oaks, Calif.; b. 1911. From the description of Manuel J. Tolegian interview, 1965 Feb. 12 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276394283 Painter; Sherman Oaks, California. Born 1911. From the description of Manuel J. Tolegian interview, 1965 Feb. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220197110 Manuel J. Tolegian (1911-1983) was a painter from Sherman Oaks, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with M...

Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)

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Art school. Organized in 1875 by students as a revolt against the National Academy of Design school. From the description of Art Students League records, 1875-1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122565877 ...

Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954

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American painter and illustrator. From the description of Photographs, [ca. 1930-1940] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155486635 Painter, illustrator, etcher; New York, N.Y. From the description of Reginald Marsh printed material, 1915-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84389391 Reginald Marsh (1898-1954) was a painter, illustrator, and etcher from New York, N.Y. Marsh was a lifelong free-lance illustrator for the New Yorker, Es...

Freeman, Donald (Donald J.)

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Illustrator; New York, N.Y.; b. 1908, San Diego, Calf.; d. 1978. Went to New York City at the age of 21. Studied with John Sloan and Harry Wickey at the Art Students League. From the description of Don Freeman interview, 1965 June 4 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79000710 ...

Henri, Robert, 1865-1929

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Painter, illustrator; New York, N.Y. From the description of Robert Henri letter, 1911 Feb. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79700794 American artist. From the description of Robert Henri papers, 1922-1928. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935956 From the description of Robert Henri speedwriting card index, circa 1922-1928. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 298597773 From the description of Robert Henri diary ...

Wickey, Harry

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Etcher, lithographer, teacher; Cornwall Landing, New York. From the description of Harry Wickey papers, 1918-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122594193 ...