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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]
Almost 850 artists were commissioned to paint 1,371 murals, most of which were installed in post offices; [4] 162 of the artists were women and three were African American. [4] The Treasury Relief Art Project (1935–1938), which provided artistic decoration for existing Federal buildings, produced a smaller number of post office murals. [ 1 ]
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.
Elba Lightfoot (1906-1989 [2]) was an African-American artist known for her work on the Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals at Harlem Hospital. [3] [4] [5] She was born in Evanston, Illinois to Isaac Lightfoot and Carrie Jones. [6] She grew up in Evanston and lived there until at least 1930.
In the 1930s Weisenborn produced several murals for the Works Progress Administration (WPA); a 7' X 30' mural entitled Contemporary Chicago at the Nettlehorst Elementary School in Chicago, [5] [6] and a series of murals at Crane Technical High School. [7] In 1933 his work was exhibited at the Century of Progress International Exposition in ...
[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.
[1] [2] He was the son of the artist Bancel La Farge and Mabel Hooper La Farge. [3] His grandfather was the artist John La Farge. [2] In 1933 La Farge was commissioned by the Public Works of Art Project to create a six panel series of murals for the lobby of the New London Main Post Office. The murals depicted ships, sailors and whaling.
Mural study for Ohio in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1930s, Meltsner participated in the Federal Arts Project of the WPA. He toured the country in an old Ford, visiting farms and factories. [4] His works represented the social realism that was popular with WPA artists of the time. His oil paintings portrayed ...