Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Holger Cahill, 1957.Biographical NoteWriter, art director
Scope and ContentsEarly life in North Dakota, wanderings and odd jobs; arrival in New York City, newspaper work, Greenwich Village; New York art world in the 1920s; folk art; Americana; collecting; Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; politics in art; the Depression; relief for artists; Federal Arts Project; New York World's Fair; art, especially abstract expressionism, since 1943. Oral history includes brief interviews with Dorothy Canning Miller (Mrs. Miller) and Clair Laning
Subjects- Art, Modern--20th century.
- Authors--Interviews.
- Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960--Interviews.
- Depressions--1929--United States.
- Federal aid to the arts.
- Interviews.
- Journalism.
- Laning, Clair.
- Laning, Clair.
- Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003.
- Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- Oral histories (literary works)
- Pring, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
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