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Photograph of the regional directors and Washington, D.C., administrative staff of the Public Works of Art Project (1934) Regional map, Public Works of Art Project The vision and advocacy of artists George Biddle and Edward Bruce are credited for the creation and management of the New Deal art programs of the United States Department of the Treasury.
Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. [1]
The New Deal was a constellation of economic stimulus policies and social programs enacted to lift America out of the Great Depression, and it touched every state, county, and city, as well as thousands of small towns and reached deep into rural areas with its conservation works.
The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history. More than 15 million Americans were left jobless and unemployment reached 25%. 25 vintage photos show how desperate and desolate ...
[6]: 58–59 [7] This contrasts with the work-relief mission of the Federal Art Project (1935–1943) of the Works Progress Administration, the largest of the New Deal art projects. So great was its scope and cultural impact that the term "WPA" is often mistakenly used to describe all New Deal art, including the U.S. post office murals.
The Federal Art Project was the visual arts arm of Federal Project Number One, a program of the Works Progress Administration, which was intended to provide employment for struggling artists during the Great Depression. Funded under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, it operated from August 29, 1935, until June 30, 1943. It was ...
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Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s (1997) Hicks, John D. Republican ascendancy, 1921–1933 (1960). online; Himmelberg, Robert F. ed The Great Depression and the New Deal (2001), short overview; Howard, Donald S. The WPA and Federal Relief Policy (1943) online; Jensen, Richard J.