Oral history interview with Lee Brown Coye, 1964 May 26
Coye, Lee Brown,
b. 1907
d. 1981
Size:
Sound recording: 1 sound tape reel ; 5 in.
Transcript: 9 p.
Collection Summary: An interview of Lee Brown Coye conducted 1964 May 26, by Joseph Trovato for the Archives of American Art.
Coye speaks of the development of his style of painting; painting murals in Utica, New York; Thomas Hart Benton's influence on him; the importance of the Federal Art Project on his career and on the lives and work of other artists.
Biographical/Historical Note: Painter, mural painter.
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.
