Albinson, Dewey, b. 1898 d. 1971

Arts administrator, Painter
Minneapolis, Minn. (Show Bio)

Oral history interview with Dewey Albinson, 1965 Oct. 27

Sound recording: 1 sound tape reel ; 5 in.
Transcript: 54 p.

An interview of Dewey Albinson conducted by Virginia Nagle for the Archives of American Art. Albinson describes his position as supervisor of Projects for the Minnesota State Department of Education. He speaks of the Minneapolis Handicraft Project; crafts by American Indians; artists and communism in New York City; Federal Art Project murals in St. Paul, Minnesota; and his relationship with Frances Densmore, Floyd Dell, Roland Mousseau, Will Norman, Benett Swanson, Forbes Watson, Charles Wells, and others.

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.

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