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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] Artists ...
Copper Miner (1936) by Raymond Phillips Sanderson, located at Cochise County Courthouse in Bisbee, Arizona [1]. 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]
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 ...
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 ...
As one of the projects in the New Deal during the Great Depression in the United States, the Public Works of Art Project (1933–1934) was developed to bring artist workers back into the job market and assure the American public that better financial times were on the way.
Andy Warhol was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, famous for his silkscreened art and experimental films. He studied design at Carnegie Tech, learning fine art and ...
The Artists Union or Artists' Union was a short-lived union of artists in New York in the years of the Great Depression. It was influential in the establishment of both the Public Works of Art Project in December 1933 and the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration in August 1935. It functioned as the principal meeting-place ...
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 ...