Oral history interview with George Rickey
Object Details
- General
- Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 59 min.
- Interviewee
- Rickey, George
- Interviewer
- Trovato, Joseph S., 1912-1983
- Creator
- New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
- Names
- New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
- Topic
- Federal aid to the arts
- Sculptors -- New York (State) -- East Chatham -- 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.
- Interviewee
- Rickey, George
- Interviewer
- Trovato, Joseph S., 1912-1983
- Creator
- New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
- Sponsor
- Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.
- Biographical / Historical
- George Rickey (1907-2002) was a sculptor from East Chatham, N.Y.
- Extent
- 15 Pages (Transcript)
- Date
- 1965 July 17
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.rickey65
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Existence and Location of Copies
- Transcript available on line.
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Scope and Contents
- An interview of George Rickey conducted 1965 July 17, by Joseph Trovato, for the Archives of American Art New Deal and the Arts Project, at the artist's home, in East Chatham, N.Y.
- Restrictions
- Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
- Record ID
- ebl-1596376847024-1596376847026-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
Oral history interview with George Rickey, 1965 July 17, Digital Sound Recording (Excerpt)
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