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{{short description|New Deal relief program to fund the visual arts}}
{{short description|New Deal relief program to fund the visual arts}}
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{{Infobox government agency
{{Infobox government agency
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The WPA program made no distinction between [[Representation (arts)|representational]] and [[Abstraction#Abstraction in art|nonrepresentational]] art. [[Abstract art|Abstraction]] had not yet gained favor in the 1930s and 1940s, so was virtually unsalable. As a result, the Federal Art Project supported such iconic artists as [[Jackson Pollock]] before their work could earn them income.<ref>Atkins, Robert (1993). ''ArtSpoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1848-1944''. [[Abbeville Publishing Group|Abbeville Press]].  {{ISBN|978-1-55859-388-6}}.</ref>
The WPA program made no distinction between [[Representation (arts)|representational]] and [[Abstraction#Abstraction in art|nonrepresentational]] art. [[Abstract art|Abstraction]] had not yet gained favor in the 1930s and 1940s, so was virtually unsalable. As a result, the Federal Art Project supported such iconic artists as [[Jackson Pollock]] before their work could earn them income.<ref>Atkins, Robert (1993). ''ArtSpoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1848-1944''. [[Abbeville Publishing Group|Abbeville Press]].  {{ISBN|978-1-55859-388-6}}.</ref>


One particular success was the Milwaukee Handicraft Project, which started in 1935 as an experiment that employed 900 people who were classified as unemployable due to their age or disability.<ref name="When Art Worked"/>{{Rp|164}} The project came to employ about 5,000 unskilled workers, many of them women and the long-term unemployed. Historian [[John Gurda]] observed that the city's unemployment hovered at 40% in 1933. "In that year," he said, "53 percent of Milwaukee's property taxes went unpaid because people just could not afford to make the tax payments."<ref name="Handicraft WPR">{{cite web |url=http://www.wpr.org/depression-era-milwaukee-handicraft-project-put-thousands-people-work |title=Depression-Era Milwaukee Handicraft Project Put Thousands of People to Work|last=Whaley |first=K. P. |date=April 30, 2014 |website=The Kathleen Dunn Show |publisher=[[Wisconsin Public Radio]] |access-date=2015-11-29}}</ref> Workers were taught bookbinding, block printing, and design, which they used to create handmade art books and children's books. They produced toys, dolls,<ref name="MOWA">{{cite web |url=http://www.wisconsinart.org/archives/affiliation/wpa-milwaukee-handicraft-project-109.aspx |title=WPA – Milwaukee Handicraft Project |publisher=[[Museum of Wisconsin Art]] |access-date=2015-11-29 |archive-date=2015-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208134332/http://www.wisconsinart.org/archives/affiliation/wpa-milwaukee-handicraft-project-109.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> theatre costumes, quilts,<ref name="Handicraft WPR"/> rugs, draperies, wall hangings, and furniture that were purchased by schools, hospitals,<ref name="When Art Worked"/>{{Rp|164}} and municipal organizations<ref name="My Day November 13">{{cite web |url=https://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1936&_f=md054487 |last=Roosevelt |first=Eleanor |author-link=Eleanor Roosevelt |date=November 13, 1936 |title=My Day |website=Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project |publisher=[[The George Washington University]] |access-date=2015-06-16 }}</ref> for the cost of materials only.<ref name="UWM">{{cite web |url=https://www4.uwm.edu/eti/wpamilw.htm |title=WPA Milwaukee Handicraft Project |website=School of Continuing Education, Employment and Training Institute |publisher=[[University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee]] |access-date=2015-11-29 |archive-date=2019-11-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102154325/http://www4.uwm.edu/eti/wpamilw.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2014, when the [[Museum of Wisconsin Art]] mounted an exhibition of items created by the Milwaukee Handicraft Project, furniture from it was still being used at the [[Milwaukee Public Library]].<ref name="Handicraft WPR"/>
One particular success was the Milwaukee Handicraft Project, which started in 1935 as an experiment that employed 900 people who were classified as unemployable due to their age or disability.<ref name="When Art Worked"/>{{Rp|164}} The project came to employ about 5,000 unskilled workers, many of them women and the long-term unemployed. Historian [[John Gurda]] observed that the city's unemployment hovered at 40% in 1933. "In that year," he said, "53 percent of Milwaukee's property taxes went unpaid because people just could not afford to make the tax payments."<ref name="Handicraft WPR">{{cite web |url=http://www.wpr.org/depression-era-milwaukee-handicraft-project-put-thousands-people-work |title=Depression-Era Milwaukee Handicraft Project Put Thousands of People to Work |last=Whaley |first=K. P. |date=April 30, 2014 |website=The Kathleen Dunn Show |publisher=[[Wisconsin Public Radio]] |access-date=2015-11-29 |archive-date=2021-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210202105038/https://www.wpr.org/depression-era-milwaukee-handicraft-project-put-thousands-people-work |url-status=dead }}</ref> Workers were taught bookbinding, block printing, and design, which they used to create handmade art books and children's books. They produced toys, dolls,<ref name="MOWA">{{cite web |url=http://www.wisconsinart.org/archives/affiliation/wpa-milwaukee-handicraft-project-109.aspx |title=WPA – Milwaukee Handicraft Project |publisher=[[Museum of Wisconsin Art]] |access-date=2015-11-29 |archive-date=2015-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208134332/http://www.wisconsinart.org/archives/affiliation/wpa-milwaukee-handicraft-project-109.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> theatre costumes, quilts,<ref name="Handicraft WPR"/> rugs, draperies, wall hangings, and furniture that were purchased by schools, hospitals,<ref name="When Art Worked"/>{{Rp|164}} and municipal organizations<ref name="My Day November 13">{{cite web |url=https://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1936&_f=md054487 |last=Roosevelt |first=Eleanor |author-link=Eleanor Roosevelt |date=November 13, 1936 |title=My Day |website=Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project |publisher=[[The George Washington University]] |access-date=2015-06-16 }}</ref> for the cost of materials only.<ref name="UWM">{{cite web |url=https://www4.uwm.edu/eti/wpamilw.htm |title=WPA Milwaukee Handicraft Project |website=School of Continuing Education, Employment and Training Institute |publisher=[[University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee]] |access-date=2015-11-29 |archive-date=2019-11-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102154325/http://www4.uwm.edu/eti/wpamilw.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2014, when the [[Museum of Wisconsin Art]] mounted an exhibition of items created by the Milwaukee Handicraft Project, furniture from it was still being used at the [[Milwaukee Public Library]].<ref name="Handicraft WPR"/>


[[Holger Cahill]] was national director of the Federal Art Project. Other administrators included [[Audrey McMahon]], director of the New York Region (New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia); [[Clement Haupers|Clement B. Haupers]], director for Minnesota;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/07wpa.php |title=WPA Art Project |website=Library |publisher=[[Minnesota Historical Society]] |access-date=2015-11-29}}</ref> George Godfrey Thorp (Illinois),<ref>Smithsonian. Archives of American Art. [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/george-godfrey-thorp-papers-5770 George Godfrey Thorp papers, 1941–1970]</ref> and [[Robert Bruce Inverarity]], director for Washington. Regional New York supervisors of the Federal Art Project have included sculptor William Ehrich (1897–1960) of the Buffalo Unit (1938–1939), project director of the [[Buffalo Zoo]] expansion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ehrich.us/biography.html|title=William Ernst Ehrich Biography|last=Ehrich|first=Nancy and Roger|access-date=17 August 2018}}</ref>
[[Holger Cahill]] was national director of the Federal Art Project. Other administrators included [[Audrey McMahon]], director of the New York Region (New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia); [[Clement Haupers|Clement B. Haupers]], director for Minnesota;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/07wpa.php |title=WPA Art Project |website=Library |publisher=[[Minnesota Historical Society]] |access-date=2015-11-29}}</ref> George Godfrey Thorp (Illinois),<ref>Smithsonian. Archives of American Art. [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/george-godfrey-thorp-papers-5770 George Godfrey Thorp papers, 1941–1970]</ref> and [[Robert Bruce Inverarity]], director for Washington. Regional New York supervisors of the Federal Art Project have included sculptor William Ehrich (1897–1960) of the Buffalo Unit (1938–1939), project director of the [[Buffalo Zoo]] expansion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ehrich.us/biography.html|title=William Ernst Ehrich Biography|last=Ehrich|first=Nancy and Roger|access-date=17 August 2018}}</ref>
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* [[Lucienne Bloch]]<ref name="NYT American Murals"/>
* [[Lucienne Bloch]]<ref name="NYT American Murals"/>
* [[Aaron Bohrod]]<ref name="New Horizons"/>{{Rp|144}}
* [[Aaron Bohrod]]<ref name="New Horizons"/>{{Rp|144}}
* [[Ilya Bolotowsky]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/1939-worlds-fair-mural-study-chicago-il/ |title=1939 World's Fair Mural Study – Chicago IL |website=The Living New Deal |publisher=Department of Geography, [[University of California, Berkeley]] |access-date=2015-06-10 }}</ref><ref name="Williamsburg">{{cite web |url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/williamsburg-housing-development-murals-brooklyn-ny/ |title=Williamsburg Housing Development Murals – Brooklyn NY|website=The Living New Deal |publisher=Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley |access-date=2015-06-10 }}</ref>
* [[Ilya Bolotowsky]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/1939-worlds-fair-mural-study-chicago-il/ |title=1939 World's Fair Mural Study – Chicago IL |website=The Living New Deal |publisher=Department of Geography, [[University of California, Berkeley]] |access-date=2015-06-10 }}</ref><ref name="Williamsburg">{{cite web |url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/williamsburg-housing-development-murals-brooklyn-ny/ |title=Williamsburg Housing Development Murals – Brooklyn NY |website=The Living New Deal |publisher=Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley |access-date=2015-06-10 |archive-date=2015-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150611191107/http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/williamsburg-housing-development-murals-brooklyn-ny/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Adele Brandeis]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-adele-brandeis-12249 |title=Oral history interview with Adele Brandeis |date=June 1, 1965 |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-18 }}</ref>
* [[Adele Brandeis]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-adele-brandeis-12249 |title=Oral history interview with Adele Brandeis |date=June 1, 1965 |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-18 }}</ref>
* [[Louise Brann]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/louise-brann-5815 |title=Louise Brann, ca. 1935|website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-17 }}</ref>
* [[Louise Brann]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/louise-brann-5815 |title=Louise Brann, ca. 1935|website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-17 }}</ref>
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* [[Adolf Dehn]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/adolf-dehn-2057 |title=Adolf Dehn, 1940 Oct. 29|website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-17 }}</ref>
* [[Adolf Dehn]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/adolf-dehn-2057 |title=Adolf Dehn, 1940 Oct. 29|website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-17 }}</ref>
* [[Willem de Kooning]]<ref name="When Art Worked"/>{{Rp|186}}
* [[Willem de Kooning]]<ref name="When Art Worked"/>{{Rp|186}}
* [[Joseph De Martini]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://art.gsa.gov/people/1221/joseph-demartini/objects?filter=peopleFilter%3A5683%2C3331 | title=Joseph De Martini in the GSA Fine Arts Collection | publisher=U.S. General Services Administration |access-date=2025-09-08}}</ref>
* [[Burgoyne Diller]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-burgoyne-diller-12944 |title=Oral history interview with Burgoyne Diller |date=October 2, 1964 |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-16 }}</ref>
* [[Burgoyne Diller]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-burgoyne-diller-12944 |title=Oral history interview with Burgoyne Diller |date=October 2, 1964 |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-16 }}</ref>
* [[Isami Doi]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/374637 |title=Isami Doi, ''Near Coney Island'' |website=The Collection Online |publisher=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |access-date=2015-06-19 }}</ref>
* [[Isami Doi]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/374637 |title=Isami Doi, ''Near Coney Island'' |website=The Collection Online |publisher=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |access-date=2015-06-19 }}</ref>
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* [[Gene Kloss]]<ref name="New Horizons"/>{{Rp|154}}
* [[Gene Kloss]]<ref name="New Horizons"/>{{Rp|154}}
* [[Karl Knaths]]<ref name="New Horizons"/>{{Rp|141, 146}}
* [[Karl Knaths]]<ref name="New Horizons"/>{{Rp|141, 146}}
* [[Edwin B. Knutesen]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wisconsinart.org/archives/affiliation/wpa-works-progress-administration--new-deal-artists-108.aspx|title=WPA - Works Progress Administration - New Deal Artists &#124; MOWA Online Archive|website=wisconsinart.org}}</ref>
* [[Edwin B. Knutesen]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wisconsinart.org/archives/affiliation/wpa-works-progress-administration--new-deal-artists-108.aspx|title=WPA - Works Progress Administration - New Deal Artists &#124; MOWA Online Archive|website=wisconsinart.org}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[Lee Krasner]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-lee-krasner-12507 |title=Oral history interview with Lee Krasner |date=November 2, 1964 – April 11, 1968 |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-15 }}</ref>
* [[Lee Krasner]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-lee-krasner-12507 |title=Oral history interview with Lee Krasner |date=November 2, 1964 – April 11, 1968 |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-15 }}</ref>
* [[Kalman Kubinyi]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/375145 |title=Kalman Kubinyi, ''Skaters'' |website=The Collection Online |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=2015-06-22 }}</ref>
* [[Kalman Kubinyi]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/375145 |title=Kalman Kubinyi, ''Skaters'' |website=The Collection Online |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=2015-06-22 }}</ref>
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* [[Jan Matulka]]<ref name="New Horizons"/>{{Rp|144}}
* [[Jan Matulka]]<ref name="New Horizons"/>{{Rp|144}}
* [[Dina Melicov]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/dina-melicov-2273 |title=Dina Melicov, 1939 Apr. 26 |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-17 }}</ref>
* [[Dina Melicov]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/dina-melicov-2273 |title=Dina Melicov, 1939 Apr. 26 |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-17 }}</ref>
* [[Hugh Mesibov]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection-search-result.html?artist=%2C%20Hugh&sortOrder=DEFAULT&pageNumber=1&lastFacet=sortOrder|title=Hugh Mesibov |website=National Gallery of Art |publisher=National Gallery of Art |access-date=2021-02-16 }}</ref>
* [[Hugh Mesibov]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection-search-result.html?artist=%2C%20Hugh&sortOrder=DEFAULT&pageNumber=1&lastFacet=sortOrder|title=Hugh Mesibov |website=National Gallery of Art |access-date=2021-02-16 }}</ref>
* [[Katherine Milhous]]<ref name="New Horizons"/>{{Rp|163}}
* [[Katherine Milhous]]<ref name="New Horizons"/>{{Rp|163}}
* [[Jo Mora]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/king-city-high-school-auditorium-bas-reliefs-king-city-ca/ |title=King City High School Auditorium Bas Reliefs – King City CA|website=The Living New Deal |publisher=Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley |access-date=2015-06-17 }}</ref>
* [[Jo Mora]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/king-city-high-school-auditorium-bas-reliefs-king-city-ca/ |title=King City High School Auditorium Bas Reliefs – King City CA|website=The Living New Deal |publisher=Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley |access-date=2015-06-17 }}</ref>
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* [[Ben Shahn]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-ben-shahn-12500 |title=Oral history interview with Ben Shahn|date=October 3, 1965
* [[Ben Shahn]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-ben-shahn-12500 |title=Oral history interview with Ben Shahn|date=October 3, 1965
  |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-13 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/rikers-island-prison-murals-east-elmhurst-ny/ |title=Rikers Island WPA Murals – East Elmhurst NY|website=The Living New Deal |publisher=Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley |access-date=2015-06-10 }}</ref>
  |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-13 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/rikers-island-prison-murals-east-elmhurst-ny/ |title=Rikers Island WPA Murals – East Elmhurst NY|website=The Living New Deal |publisher=Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley |access-date=2015-06-10 }}</ref>
* [[Henrietta Shore]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.santacruzmah.org/ohj |title=A Gift to the City: The Post Office Murals of Henrietta Shore |website=Online History Journal |publisher=Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History |access-date=2025-12-18 }}</ref>
* [[William Howard Shuster]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-will-shuster-13208#transcript |title=Oral history interview with Will Shuster, 1964 |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2016-04-20 }}</ref>
* [[William Howard Shuster]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-will-shuster-13208#transcript |title=Oral history interview with Will Shuster, 1964 |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2016-04-20 }}</ref>
* [[Mitchell Siporin]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/lane-tech-college-prep-high-school-teaching-arts-mural-chicago-il/ |title=Lane Tech College Prep High School Auditorium Mural – Chicago IL|website=The Living New Deal |publisher=Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley |access-date=2015-06-15 }}</ref>
* [[Mitchell Siporin]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://livingnewdeal.org/projects/lane-tech-college-prep-high-school-teaching-arts-mural-chicago-il/ |title=Lane Tech College Prep High School Auditorium Mural – Chicago IL|website=The Living New Deal |publisher=Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley |access-date=2015-06-15 }}</ref>
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* [[Harry Everett Townsend]]<ref name="Connecticut Inventory"/>
* [[Harry Everett Townsend]]<ref name="Connecticut Inventory"/>
* [[Edward Buk Ulreich]]<ref name="Librarian Praises WPA"/>
* [[Edward Buk Ulreich]]<ref name="Librarian Praises WPA"/>
*[[Charles Umlauf]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.umlaufsculpture.org/charles-umlauf,|title=Timeline under Charles Umlauf bio on the UMLAUF Website}}</ref>
*[[Charles Umlauf]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.umlaufsculpture.org/charles-umlauf,|title=Timeline under Charles Umlauf bio on the UMLAUF Website}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[Jacques Van Aalten]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/jacques-van-aalten-3263 |title=Jacques Van Aalten, 1938 May 26|website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-17 }}</ref>
* [[Jacques Van Aalten]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/jacques-van-aalten-3263 |title=Jacques Van Aalten, 1938 May 26|website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-17 }}</ref>
* [[Stuyvesant Van Veen]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/stuyvesant-van-veen-papers-9250 |title=Stuyvesant Van Veen papers, circa 1926-1988|website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-17 }}</ref>
* [[Stuyvesant Van Veen]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/stuyvesant-van-veen-papers-9250 |title=Stuyvesant Van Veen papers, circa 1926-1988|website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2015-06-17 }}</ref>
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[[File:Art classes for children LCCN98510141.jpg|thumb|WPA poster advertising art classes for children]]
[[File:Art classes for children LCCN98510141.jpg|thumb|WPA poster advertising art classes for children]]
{{anchor|WPA Poster Division}}
{{anchor|WPA Poster Division}}
The WPA Poster Division was headed by [[Richard Floethe]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=DeNoon |first=Christopher |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16558529 |title=Posters of the WPA |date=1987 |publisher=Wheatley Press, in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle |others=Francis V. O'Connor |isbn=0-295-96543-6 |location=Los Angeles |oclc=16558529}}</ref> The WPA Poster Division is thought to have produced upward of 35,000 designs and printed some two million posters, originally by hand but quickly transitioning to widespread adoption of the silkscreen process.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carter |first=Ennis |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/227919759 |title=Posters for the people : art of the WPA |date=2008 |publisher=Quirk Books |others=Christopher DeNoon, Alexander M. Peltz |isbn=978-1-59474-292-7 |location=Philadelphia, PA |oclc=227919759}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> The Poster Division began in New York City and by 1938 had artists in 18 states; the Chicago unit was the second-most productive after New York.<ref name=":0" /> According to preeminent New Deal art historian [[Francis V. O’Connor]], only about 2,000 surviving examples of WPA poster art are held in the nation’s library and museum print collections.<ref name=":0" />
The WPA Poster Division was headed by [[Richard Floethe]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=DeNoon |first=Christopher |title=Posters of the WPA |date=1987 |publisher=Wheatley Press, in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle |others=Francis V. O'Connor |isbn=0-295-96543-6 |location=Los Angeles |oclc=16558529}}</ref> The WPA Poster Division is thought to have produced upward of 35,000 designs and printed some two million posters, originally by hand but quickly transitioning to widespread adoption of the silkscreen process.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carter |first=Ennis |title=Posters for the people : art of the WPA |date=2008 |publisher=Quirk Books |others=Christopher DeNoon, Alexander M. Peltz |isbn=978-1-59474-292-7 |location=Philadelphia, PA |oclc=227919759}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> The Poster Division began in New York City and by 1938 had artists in 18 states; the Chicago unit was the second-most productive after New York.<ref name=":0" /> According to preeminent New Deal art historian [[Francis V. O’Connor]], only about 2,000 surviving examples of WPA poster art are held in the nation’s library and museum print collections.<ref name=":0" />


==WPA Art Recovery Project==
==WPA Art Recovery Project==
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Hundreds of thousands of artworks were commissioned under the Federal Art Project.<ref name="Brian Naylor">{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2014/04/16/303718738/new-deal-treasure-government-searches-for-long-lost-art |title=New Deal Treasure: Government Searches For Long-Lost Art|last=Naylor |first=Brian |date=April 16, 2014 |website=[[All Things Considered]] |publisher=[[NPR]] |access-date=2015-06-13 }}</ref> Many of the portable works have been lost, abandoned, or given away as unauthorized gifts. As custodian of the work, which remains federal property, the [[General Services Administration]] (GSA) maintains an inventory<ref name="GSA Inventory">{{cite web |url=http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/101384 |title=New Deal Artwork: GSA's Inventory Project |publisher=[[General Services Administration]] |access-date=2015-06-13 |archive-date=2017-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170720013035/https://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/101384 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and works with the FBI and art community to identify and recover WPA art.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/169461 |title=New Deal Artwork: Ownership and Responsibility |publisher=[[General Services Administration]] |access-date=2015-06-13 }}</ref> In 2010, it produced a 22-minute documentary about the WPA Art Recovery Project, "Returning America’s Art to America", narrated by [[Charles Osgood]].<ref name="WPA Art Recovery Project">{{cite web |url=https://www.gsaig.gov/index.cfm/other-documents/other/works-progress-administration-wpa-art-recovery-project/ |title=Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art Recovery Project |publisher=[[Office of the Inspector General]], General Services Administration |access-date=2015-06-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919064231/https://www.gsaig.gov/index.cfm/other-documents/other/works-progress-administration-wpa-art-recovery-project/ |archive-date=2015-09-19 }}</ref>
Hundreds of thousands of artworks were commissioned under the Federal Art Project.<ref name="Brian Naylor">{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2014/04/16/303718738/new-deal-treasure-government-searches-for-long-lost-art |title=New Deal Treasure: Government Searches For Long-Lost Art|last=Naylor |first=Brian |date=April 16, 2014 |website=[[All Things Considered]] |publisher=[[NPR]] |access-date=2015-06-13 }}</ref> Many of the portable works have been lost, abandoned, or given away as unauthorized gifts. As custodian of the work, which remains federal property, the [[General Services Administration]] (GSA) maintains an inventory<ref name="GSA Inventory">{{cite web |url=http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/101384 |title=New Deal Artwork: GSA's Inventory Project |publisher=[[General Services Administration]] |access-date=2015-06-13 |archive-date=2017-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170720013035/https://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/101384 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and works with the FBI and art community to identify and recover WPA art.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/169461 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100829202834/http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/169461 |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 29, 2010 |title=New Deal Artwork: Ownership and Responsibility |publisher=[[General Services Administration]] |access-date=2015-06-13 }}</ref> In 2010, it produced a 22-minute documentary about the WPA Art Recovery Project, "Returning America’s Art to America", narrated by [[Charles Osgood]].<ref name="WPA Art Recovery Project">{{cite web |url=https://www.gsaig.gov/index.cfm/other-documents/other/works-progress-administration-wpa-art-recovery-project/ |title=Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art Recovery Project |publisher=[[Office of the Inspector General]], General Services Administration |access-date=2015-06-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919064231/https://www.gsaig.gov/index.cfm/other-documents/other/works-progress-administration-wpa-art-recovery-project/ |archive-date=2015-09-19 }}</ref>


In July 2014, the GSA estimated that only 20,000 of the portable works have been located to date.<ref name="GSA Inventory"/><ref>{{cite news |last=MacFarlane |first=Scott |date=September 17, 2014 |title=Lost History: Hunting for WPA Paintings|url=http://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/Depression-Treasures-Hunting-for-WPA-Paintings-275523541.html |newspaper=[[WRC-TV|NBC 4]] |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=2015-06-13 }}</ref> In 2015, GSA investigators found 122 Federal Art Project paintings in California libraries, where most had been stored and forgotten.<ref>{{cite news |last=MacFarlane |first=Scott |date=April 20, 2015 |title=Dozens of Pieces of Lost WPA Art Found in California |url=http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Dozens-of-Pieces-of-Lost-WPA-Art-Found-in-California-300716101.html |newspaper=NBC 4 |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=2015-06-13 }}</ref>
In July 2014, the GSA estimated that only 20,000 of the portable works have been located to date.<ref name="GSA Inventory"/><ref>{{cite news |last=MacFarlane |first=Scott |date=September 17, 2014 |title=Lost History: Hunting for WPA Paintings|url=http://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/Depression-Treasures-Hunting-for-WPA-Paintings-275523541.html |newspaper=[[WRC-TV|NBC 4]] |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=2015-06-13 }}</ref> In 2015, GSA investigators found 122 Federal Art Project paintings in California libraries, where most had been stored and forgotten.<ref>{{cite news |last=MacFarlane |first=Scott |date=April 20, 2015 |title=Dozens of Pieces of Lost WPA Art Found in California |url=http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Dozens-of-Pieces-of-Lost-WPA-Art-Found-in-California-300716101.html |newspaper=NBC 4 |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=2015-06-13 }}</ref>

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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, but as a relief measure to employ artists and artisans to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photography, theatre scenic design, and arts and crafts. The WPA Federal Art Project established more than 100 community art centers throughout the country, researched and documented American design, commissioned a significant body of public art without restriction to content or subject matter, and sustained some 10,000 artists and craft workers during the Great Depression. According to American Heritage, “Something like 400,000 easel paintings, murals, prints, posters, and renderings were produced by WPA artists during the eight years of the project’s existence, virtually free of government pressure to control subject matter, interpretation, or style.”[1]

Background

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Script error: No such module "Multiple image". 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 created as a relief measure to employ artists and artisans to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photographs, Index of American Design documentation, museum and theatre scenic design, and arts and crafts. The Federal Art Project operated community art centers throughout the country where craft workers and artists worked, exhibited, and educated others.[2] The project created more than 200,000 separate works, some of them remaining among the most significant pieces of public art in the country.[3]

The Federal Art Project's primary goals were to employ out-of-work artists and to provide art for nonfederal municipal buildings and public spaces. Artists were paid $23.60 a week; tax-supported institutions such as schools, hospitals, and public buildings paid only for materials.[4] The work was divided into art production, art instruction, and art research. The primary output of the art-research group was the Index of American Design, a mammoth and comprehensive study of American material culture.

As many as 10,000 artists were commissioned to produce work for the WPA Federal Art Project,[5] the largest of the New Deal art projects. Three comparable but distinctly separate New Deal art projects were administered by the United States Department of the Treasury: the Public Works of Art Project (1933–1934), the Section of Painting and Sculpture (1934–1943), and the Treasury Relief Art Project (1935–1938).[6]

The WPA program made no distinction between representational and nonrepresentational art. Abstraction had not yet gained favor in the 1930s and 1940s, so was virtually unsalable. As a result, the Federal Art Project supported such iconic artists as Jackson Pollock before their work could earn them income.[7]

One particular success was the Milwaukee Handicraft Project, which started in 1935 as an experiment that employed 900 people who were classified as unemployable due to their age or disability.[8]Template:Rp The project came to employ about 5,000 unskilled workers, many of them women and the long-term unemployed. Historian John Gurda observed that the city's unemployment hovered at 40% in 1933. "In that year," he said, "53 percent of Milwaukee's property taxes went unpaid because people just could not afford to make the tax payments."[9] Workers were taught bookbinding, block printing, and design, which they used to create handmade art books and children's books. They produced toys, dolls,[10] theatre costumes, quilts,[9] rugs, draperies, wall hangings, and furniture that were purchased by schools, hospitals,[8]Template:Rp and municipal organizations[11] for the cost of materials only.[12] In 2014, when the Museum of Wisconsin Art mounted an exhibition of items created by the Milwaukee Handicraft Project, furniture from it was still being used at the Milwaukee Public Library.[9]

Holger Cahill was national director of the Federal Art Project. Other administrators included Audrey McMahon, director of the New York Region (New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia); Clement B. Haupers, director for Minnesota;[13] George Godfrey Thorp (Illinois),[14] and Robert Bruce Inverarity, director for Washington. Regional New York supervisors of the Federal Art Project have included sculptor William Ehrich (1897–1960) of the Buffalo Unit (1938–1939), project director of the Buffalo Zoo expansion.[15]

Notable artists

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Some 10,000 artists were commissioned to work for the Federal Art Project.[5] Notable artists include the following:

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Community Art Center program

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State City Name Notes
Alabama Birmingham Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Alabama Birmingham Healey School Art Gallery [3]Template:Rp
Alabama Mobile Mobile Art Center, Public Library Building [3]Template:Rp
Arizona Phoenix Phoenix Art Center [3]Template:Rp
District of Columbia Washington, D.C. Children's Art Gallery [3]Template:Rp
Florida Bradenton Bradenton Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Florida Coral Gables Coral Gables Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Florida Daytona Beach Daytona Beach Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Florida Jacksonville Jacksonville Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Florida Jacksonville Jacksonville Beach Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Florida Jacksonville Jacksonville Negro Art Center Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp[158]
Florida Key West Key West Community Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Florida Miami Miami Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Florida Milton Milton Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Florida New Smyrna Beach New Smyrna Beach Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Florida Ocala Ocala Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Florida Pensacola Pensacola Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Florida St. Petersburg Jordan Park Negro Exhibition Center [3]Template:Rp
Florida St. Petersburg St. Petersburg Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Florida St. Petersburg St. Petersburg Civic Exhibition Center [3]Template:Rp
Florida Tampa Tampa Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Florida Tampa West Tampa Negro Art Gallery [3]Template:Rp
Illinois Chicago Hyde Park Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Illinois Chicago South Side Community Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Iowa Mason City Mason City Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Iowa Ottumwa Ottumwa Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Iowa Sioux City Sioux City Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Kansas Topeka Topeka Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Minnesota Minneapolis Walker Art Center [3]Template:Rp[159]
Mississippi Greenville Delta Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Mississippi Oxford Oxford Art Center [3]Template:Rp[160]
Mississippi Sunflower Sunflower County Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Missouri St. Louis The People's Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Montana Butte Butte Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Montana Great Falls Great Falls Art Center [3]Template:Rp
New Mexico Gallup Gallup Art Center [3]Template:Rp[35]
New Mexico Melrose Melrose Art Center [3]Template:Rp
New Mexico Roswell Roswell Museum and Art Center [3]Template:Rp
New York City Brooklyn Brooklyn Community Art Center [3]Template:Rp
New York City Manhattan Contemporary Art Center [3]Template:Rp[161]
New York City Harlem Harlem Community Art Center [3]Template:Rp
New York City Flushing, Queens Queensboro Community Art Center [3]Template:Rp
North Carolina Cary Cary Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
North Carolina Greensboro Greensboro Art Center [157]
North Carolina Greenville Greenville Art Gallery [3]Template:Rp
North Carolina Raleigh Crosby-Garfield School Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
North Carolina Raleigh Needham B. Broughton High School Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
North Carolina Raleigh Raleigh Art Center [3]Template:Rp
North Carolina Wilmington Wilmington Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Oklahoma Bristow Bristow Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Oklahoma Claremore Claremore Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Oklahoma Claremore Will Rogers Public Library Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Oklahoma Clinton Clinton Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Oklahoma Cushing Cushing Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Oklahoma Edmond Edmond Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Oklahoma Marlow Marlow Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Oklahoma Oklahoma City Oklahoma Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Oklahoma Okmulgee Okmulgee Art Center Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Oklahoma Sapulpa Sapulpa Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Oklahoma Shawnee Shawnee Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Oklahoma Skiatook Skiatook Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Oregon Gold Beach Curry County Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Oregon La Grande Grande Ronde Valley Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Oregon Salem Salem Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Pennsylvania Somerset Somerset Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Tennessee Chattanooga Hamilton County Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Tennessee Memphis LeMoyne Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Tennessee Nashville Peabody Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Tennessee Norris Anderson County Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Utah Cedar City Cedar City Art Exhibition Association Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Utah Helper Helper Community Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Utah Price Price Community Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Utah Provo Provo Community Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Utah Salt Lake City Utah State Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Virginia Altavista Altavista Extension Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Virginia Big Stone Gap Big Stone Gap Art Gallery [3]Template:Rp
Virginia Lynchburg Lynchburg Art Gallery [3]Template:Rp
Virginia Richmond Children's Art Gallery [3]Template:Rp
Virginia Saluda Middlesex County Museum Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Washington Chehalis Lewis County Exhibition Center Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Washington Pullman Washington State College Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Washington Spokane Spokane Art Center [3]Template:Rp[162]
West Virginia Morgantown Morgantown Art Center [3]Template:Rp
West Virginia Parkersburg Parkersburg Art Center [3]Template:Rp
West Virginia Scotts Run Scotts Run Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Wyoming Casper Casper Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Wyoming Lander Lander Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Wyoming Laramie Laramie Art Center [3]Template:Rp
Wyoming Newcastle Lander Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Wyoming Rawlins Rawlins Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Wyoming Riverton Riverton Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Wyoming Rock Springs Rock Springs Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Wyoming Sheridan Sheridan Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp
Wyoming Torrington Torrington Art Gallery Extension art gallery[3]Template:Rp

Index of American Design

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Federal Art Project Illinois poster for an exhibition of the Index of American Design

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The Index of American Design program of the Federal Art Project produced a pictorial survey of the crafts and decorative arts of the United States from the early colonial period to 1900. Artists working for the Index produced nearly 18,000 meticulously faithful watercolor drawings,[8]Template:Rp documenting material culture by largely anonymous artisans.[163]Template:Rp Objects surveyed ranged from furniture, silver, glass, stoneware and textiles to tavern signs, ships's figureheads, cigar-store figures, carousel horses, toys, tools and weather vanes.[8]Template:Rp[164] Photography was used only to a limited degree since artists could more accurately and effectively present the form, character, color and texture of the objects. The best drawings approach the work of such 19th-century trompe-l'œil painters as William Harnett; lesser works represent the process of artists who were given employment and expert training.[163]Template:Rp

"It was not a nostalgic or antiquarian enterprise," wrote historian Roger G. Kennedy. "It was initiated by modernists dedicated to abstract design, hoping to influence industrial design — thus in many ways it parallelled the founding philosophy of the Museum of Modern Art in New York."[8]Template:Rp

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Holger Cahill, national director of the Federal Art Project, speaking at the Harlem Community Art Center (October 24, 1938)

Like all WPA programs, the Index had the primary purpose of providing employment.[165] Its function was to identify and record material of historical significance that had not been studied and was in danger of being lost. Its aim was to gather together these pictorial records into a body of material that would form the basis for organic development of American design — a usable American past accessible to artists, designers, manufacturers, museums, libraries and schools. The United States had no single comprehensive collection of authenticated historical native design comparable to those available to scholars, artists and industrial designers in Europe.[166]

"In one sense the Index is a kind of archaeology," wrote Holger Cahill. "It helps to correct a bias which has tended to relegate the work of the craftsman and the folk artist to the subconscious of our history where it can be recovered only by digging. In the past we have lost whole sequences out of their story, and have all but forgotten the unique contribution of hand skills in our culture."[163]Template:Rp

The Index of American Design operated in 34 states and the District of Columbia from 1935 to 1942. It was founded by Romana Javitz, head of the Picture Collection of the New York Public Library, and textile designer Ruth Reeves.[8]Template:Rp Reeves was appointed the first national coordinator; she was succeeded by C. Adolph Glassgold (1936) and Benjamin Knotts (1940). Constance Rourke was national editor.[163]Template:Rp The work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.[167]

The Index employed an average of 300 artists during its six years in operation.[163]Template:Rp One artist was Magnus S. Fossum, a longtime farmer who was compelled by the Depression to move from the Midwest to Florida. After he lost his left hand in an accident in 1934, he produced watercolor renderings for the Index, using magnifiers and drafting instruments for accuracy and precision. Fossum eventually received an insurance settlement that made it possible for him to buy another farm and leave the Federal Art Project.[8]Template:Rp

In her essay,'Picturing a Usable Past,' Virginia Tuttle Clayton, curator of the 2002-2003 exhibition, Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design, held at the National Gallery of Art noted that "the Index of American Design was the result of an ambitious and creative effort to furnish for the visual arts a usable past."[168]

Poster Division

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WPA poster advertising art classes for children

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WPA Art Recovery Project

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Hundreds of thousands of artworks were commissioned under the Federal Art Project.[5] Many of the portable works have been lost, abandoned, or given away as unauthorized gifts. As custodian of the work, which remains federal property, the General Services Administration (GSA) maintains an inventory[172] and works with the FBI and art community to identify and recover WPA art.[173] In 2010, it produced a 22-minute documentary about the WPA Art Recovery Project, "Returning America’s Art to America", narrated by Charles Osgood.[174]

In July 2014, the GSA estimated that only 20,000 of the portable works have been located to date.[172][175] In 2015, GSA investigators found 122 Federal Art Project paintings in California libraries, where most had been stored and forgotten.[176]

See also

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Further reading

  • DeNoon, Christopher. Posters of the WPA (Los Angeles: Wheatley Press, 1987).
  • Grieve, Victoria. The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture (2009) excerpt
  • Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  • Kelly, Andrew, Kentucky by Design: American Culture, the Decorative Arts and the Federal Art Project's Index of American Design, University Press of Kentucky, 2015, Template:ISBN
  • Russo, Jillian. "The Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project Reconsidered." Visual Resources 34.1-2 (2018): 13-32.

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