Oral history interview with Frederic Stewart Bartlett, 1964 Nov. 11
Bartlett, Fred S. (Frederic Stewart),
b. 1905
Museum director
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Size:
Sound recordings: 1 sound tape reel ; 7 in.
Transcript: 37 p.
Collection Summary: An interview of Frederic Stewart Bartlett conducted 1964 Nov. 11, by Sylvia Loomis for the Archives of American Art.
Bartlett speaks of his early life in Colorado; his early museum experience at the Denver Art Museum; the art centers started under the New Deal; unnoticed artists of America; the art of the banal; contemporary problems in museums. He recalls Donald Bear, Gladys Caldwell, Frank Mechau and Holger Cahill.
Biographical/Historical Note: Museum director; Colorado Springs, Colo.
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.
