Oral history interview with Patricia Stanley Cunningham, 1964 July 28, Digital Sound Recording (Excerpt)
Oral History Interview with Patricia Stanley Cunningham, 1964 July 28, Transcript
Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 48 min.
An interview of Patricia Stanley Cunningham conducted 1964 July 28, by Mary Fuller McChesney and Robert McChesney, for the Archives of American Art.
Cunningham speaks of her training at the University of California, Berkeley; her work for the Federal Art Project as a muralist in public school buildings and on the easel painting project in the area around Monterey, Carmel, and Big Sur, California; how her work was supervised; artists she knew; starting the Carmel Art Institute with her husband, John Cunningham, and the effect of the Federal Art Project on her career. She recalls Bruce Ariss, Burton Boundey, Beniamino Bufano, and Amalie Waldo.
Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 3418 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Patricia Stanley Cunningham (1907-1984) was a painter, sculptor, designer, and muralist from Carmel, California.
This interview conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s.
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Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.