Early 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
Authors; Federal aid to the arts; Journalism; Depressions--1929--United States; New Deal, 1933-1939; Art, Modern--20th century; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960; Miller, Dorothy Canning, 1904-2003; Laning, Clair