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    Oral history interview with Alice Graeme Korff, Oct. 7

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    Preface

    The following oral history transcript is the result of a tape-recorded interview with Alice Korff on October 7, The interview took place in Washington DC, and was conducted by Harlan Phillips for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

    Interview

    HARLAN PHILLIPS: I think most important of all and something which historians often overlook is the context in which events occur. Somehow it gives shape, dimension and scope. Were you here in Washington in the thirties?

    ALICE KORFF: Yes, I was living here and I was a friend of the Bruce's - Ned Bruce, I assume that you've worked with Peggy Bruce.

    HARLAN PHILLIPS: She was marvelous.

    ALICE KORFF: Well, it was really through him that the project started, as you know, and through George Biddle. Ned Bruce was the guiding force of the project for so many years.

    HARLAN PHILLIPS: Is this the PWAP - the early one?

    ALICE KORFF: Yes.

    HARLAN PHILLIPS: '3

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    Art of the New Deal

    "I, too, have a dream-to show people in the out of the way places, some of whom are not only in small villages but in corners of New York City-something they cannot get from between the covers of books-some real paintings and prints and etchings and some real music." 
    Franklin Roosevelt to Hendrik Willem Van Loon, January 6,   

    Michigan artist Alfred Castagne sketching Works Progress Administration (WPA) construction workers, May 19,

    FDR's New Deal provided federally-funded jobs for millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression. These included jobs for tens of thousands of artists, including musicians, actors, dancers, writers, photographers, painters, and sculptors. Asked why the government should provide jobs for unemployed artists, New Deal administrator Harry Hopkins replied, "Hell, they've got to eat just like other people."

    Government art programs rescued artists from poverty and despair. But they also served a

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    Biography

    Olin Dows's heritage shaped his life and his career in a major way. His parents were wealthy: his father Tracy Dows the son of a New York City grain merchant, and his mother Alice Olin the daughter of a prominent family from Rhinebeck, New York. When Olin was four, his parents acquired an estate along the Hudson. Much of Dows's life was to be spent in this area. His father documented the development of the property and the construction and furnishing of the mansion he built there with an exhaustive set of photographs, recently compiled as part of a book bygd David Byars, Our Time at Foxhollow Farm. Neighbors of the Dows family included Vincent Astor, who upon the sinking of the Titanic became the richest young man in the country, and the Roosevelts. Franklin Roosevelt became a friend of Olin's and a significant factor in his professional career. Robert Chanler, who was a member of the Astor family, was an artist known for his painted screens, including ones shown at the