Overview
Collection Information
Size: 31 Pages, Transcript
Format: Originally recorded 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 45 min. Sound quality is extremely poor.
Summary: An interview of Margery Hoffman Smith conducted in 1961 by Harlan Phillips for the Archives of American Art.
Smith speaks of her work with the Federal Art Project in Oregon, working on the design for Timberline Lodge, a ski lodge built under the authority of the WPA in the 1940s.
Biographical/Historical Note
Margery Hoffman Smith (1888-1981) was a painter, craftsman, and interior decorator from San Francisco, California. Smith was art director for the Timberline Lodge project on Mount Hood, Oregon, which was built under the authority of the WPA in the 1940s. She became the assistant state director of the Federal Art Project in Oregon.
Provenance
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.
Language Note
English .