Oral history interview with Margery Hoffman Smith
Object Details
- General
- Originally recorded 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 2 min.
- Interviewee
- Smith, Margery Hoffman, 1888-1981
- Interviewer
- Ferbraché, Lewis
- Creator
- New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
- Names
- New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
- Timberline Lodge (Mount Hood, Or.)
- United States. Works Progress Administration
- Occupation
- Arts administrators -- Oregon
- Topic
- Federal aid to the arts
- Women artists
- Provenance
- 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
- Smith, Margery Hoffman, 1888-1981
- Interviewer
- Ferbraché, Lewis
- 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
- Margery Hoffman Smith (1888-1981) was a painter, craftsman, and interior decorator from San Francisco, California. Smith was art director for the Timberline Lodge project on Mount Hood, Oregon, which was built under the authority of the WPA in the 1940s. She became the assistant state director of the Federal Art Project in Oregon.
- Extent
- 45 Pages (Transcript)
- Date
- 1964 April 10
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.smith64apr
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Scope and Contents
- An interview of Margery Hoffman Smith conducted 1964 April 10, by Lewis Ferbraché, for the Archives of American Art, at the artist's home, in San Francisco, California.
- Discusses her involvement with the design of Timberline Lodge in Oregon for the Works Progress Administration.
- Restrictions
- Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
- Record ID
- ebl-1596380483083-1596380483085-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
Oral history interview with Margery Hoffman Smith, 1964 April 10, Digital Sound Recording (Excerpt)
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