Oral history interview with Edward Chavez

Object Details

General: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 20 min.

Interviewee: Chavez, Edward Arcenio, 1917-1995
Interviewer: Trovato, Joseph S., 1912-1983
Creator: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
Names: Federal Art Project; New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project; Treasury Relief Art Project

Topic: Painters -- New York (State) -- Woodstock -- Interviews; Muralists -- New York (State) -- Woodstock -- Interviews; Federal aid to the arts; Mural painting and decoration; Latino and Latin American artists; Sculptors -- New York (State) -- Woodstock -- Interviews

Provenance: 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.

Biographical / Historical: Edward Chavez (1917-1995) is a painter, mural painter, and sculptor from Woodstock, New York.

Type: Collection descriptions; Archival materials; Pages; Sound recordings; Interviews

Scope and Contents: An interview of Edward Chavez conducted 1964 November 5, in Woodstock, New York, by Joseph Trovato for the Archives of American Art.; Chavez speaks of the development of his interest in art; working for the Treasury Relief Art Project, and later the WPA Federal Art Project; murals he did for the WPA in high schools and post offices; his post-war paintings and the change in his style; and his feelings about federal support for the arts.