Reno, Paul

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Paul Reno interview summary, 1965 June 14

3 p.

A summary by Richard Doud of an interview he conducted with Paul Reno for the Archives of American Art. Reno discusses the Works Progress Administration; his teaching job with the Federal Art Project at Union Settlement in New York; a job as a WPA art instructor at Bellevue Hospital; and his being grateful for the WPA Project.

Location of Originals: No tape at the request of interviewee.

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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