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(Federal One’s budget at its height in 1935 was $27 million, representing 0.04% of GDP.) [3] The Treasury Department’s Public Works of Art Project, Section of Painting and Sculpture, and Treasury Relief Art Project, as well as the Civil Works Administration, the Public Works Administration, and the Civilian Conservation Corps [4] were also ...
Samuel Joseph Brown Jr. (1907–1994) was a watercolorist, printmaker, and educator. He was the first African American artist hired to produce work for the Public Works of Art Project, a precursor to the Work Progress Administration's Federal Art Project.
Art for the Millions: Essays from the 1930s by Artists and Administrators of the WPA Federal Art Project. Boston: New York Graphic Society. ISBN 9780821204399. "1934: A New Deal for Artists" is an exhibition featuring artworks from the Public Works of Art Project at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This site contains a slide show, public ...
Mabel Wellington Jack (1899–1975) was an American printmaker. Many of her prints were published by the New York City Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP). Her work is included in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, and ...
The Harlem Community Art Center was a Federal Art Project community art center that operated from 1937 to 1942. It influenced various budding artists intent on depicting Harlem and led to the formation of the Harlem Arts Alliance.
George Albert Harris, also known as George Harris (1913–1991), was an American painter, muralist, lithographer, and educator.He was a participant in the WPA Federal Art Project and was among the youngest artists on the mural project at Coit Tower. [1]
Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) [2] was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s.
Federal Project Number One, also referred to as Federal One (Fed One), is the collective name for a group of projects under the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program in the United States. Of the $ 4.88 billion allocated by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 , [ 1 ] $27 million was approved for the employment of artists ...