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South Carolina Public Library History, 1930–1945; WPA Children's Books (1935–1943) Broward County Library's Bienes Museum of the Modern Book; WPA murals: Database of WPA murals Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today; WPA-FAP Mural Division in NYC, and restoration of murals at the Williamsburg Houses and Hospital for Chronic Diseases on ...
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]
[168] [167] 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. [167] 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 ...
Collectively, the artists of the New Deal produced a vast archive: Murals, including 1,100 post office murals , [6] free-standing and bas relief sculpture, an estimated 30,000 posters, [7] more than 700 books and pamphlets and radio scripts, [8] and architectural details for scores of public buildings, in a style now called WPA Moderne.
The Historical Records Survey (HRS) was a project of the Works Progress Administration New Deal program in the United States.Originally part of the Federal Writers' Project, it was devoted to surveying and indexing historically significant records in state, county and local archives.
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Aquarius (1938) by Samuel Cashwan for the John F. Dye Water Conditioning Plant in Lansing, Mich.. List of New Deal sculpture is a list of sculpture found in the United States and its territories, including free standing, relief and architectural sculpture that was funded by the federal government during the New Deal era.
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