/internal/media/dispatcher/67158/fullTansill Stough-Anthony Oral History02/13/2015Duration: 58 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2015.001.00350Videotaped oral history interview with Tansill Stough. An artist in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Stough was in the second grade in 1963. Leading up to the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, she created a series of paintings entitled "Fading Memories, in Honor of JFK." Three of these works were on display at the Arkansas Governor's Mansion in 2013.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on February 13, 2014 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 58 minutes long.Oral Histories655740E-100E-1043770Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Tansill Stough-Anthony. An artist in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Stough-Anthony was in the second grade in 1963. Leading up to the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, she created a series of paintings entitled "Fading Memories: In Honor of JFK." Three of these works were on display at the Arkansas Governor's Mansion in 2013. Her series is now in the Museum's Collection.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on February 13, 2015 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 58 minutes long.Oral histories50th anniversaryArtistArtworkStudentStough-Anthony, TansillDallasHot SpringsChildhood Recollections (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Artists (OHC)Popular Culture (OHC)Tansill Stough (now Tansill Stough-Anthony) recorded this oral history during her second visit to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. She had first visited a few months earlier in 2014 and was inspired to add an additional painting to her "Fading Memories" series. On the day of this second visit in February 2015, I recall that the paint was still wet on that latest work, "Lost Hope," which is now part of the Museum's Collection. Her Museum visits in 2014-2015 later inspired her ninth and final painting in the "Fading Memories" series, "The View from the Sixth Floor."
I remember that Tansill's interview was quite unique. The first half was a traditional one-on-one video recording in our Media Room on the ground floor of the former Texas School Book Depository building. We then went to our Collections Workroom and joined our Collections staff for a detailed look at each of Tansill's paintings. One by one, she examined and commented on each work, providing us with significant context directly from the artist. It was a great pleasure, just over six years later, to reconnect with Tansill via Zoom for a virtual artist conversation. [Insert link once posted to YouTube channel.] -- Stephen Fagin, Curator