Krause, Erik Hans, 1899-1990
Painter, Author, Arts administrator
Size: Transcript: 11 p.
Format: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformated in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 32 min.
Summary: An interview of Erik Hans Krause and Gertrude Herdle Moore conducted 1965 Jan. 23, by Joseph Trovato, for the Archives of American Art.
Erik Hans Krause (1899-1990) and Gertrude Herdle Moore (1896-1993) were art administrators in New York.
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.
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Erik Hans Krause and Gertrude Herdle Moore, 1965 Jan. 23. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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