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The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the largest of the New Deal art projects. It was created not as a cultural activity ...
The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) of the Works Progress Administration was the largest of the New Deal art projects. [1] As many as 10,000 artists [2] were employed to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photography, Index of American Design documentation, theatre scenic design, and arts and crafts. [3]
The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) was a New Deal work-relief program that employed professional artists to create sculptures, paintings, crafts and design for public buildings and parks during the Great Depression in the United States. [1][2] The program operated from December 8, 1933, to May 20, 1934, [3] administered by Edward Bruce ...
Samuel Joseph Brown Jr. 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. Brown often depicted the lives of African Americans in his paintings.
George Biddle (January 24, 1885 – November 6, 1973) was an American painter, muralist and lithographer, best known for his social realism and combat art.A childhood friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he played a major role in establishing the Federal Art Project (1935–1943), which employed artists under the Works Progress Administration.
The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was the visual arts arm of the Federal Project Number One program of the "Second" New Deal, under the Work Projects Administration during Great Depression in the United States . It was preceded by the Public Works of Art Project (1933–1934), the first of three separate and distinct art projects ...
New Deal artwork is an umbrella term used to describe the creative output organized and funded by the Roosevelt administration 's New Deal response to the Great Depression. [2] This work produced between 1933 and 1942 [2] ranges in content and form from Dorothea Lange 's photographs for the Farm Security Administration to the Coit Tower murals ...
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