The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) was a New Deal work-relief program that employed professional artists to create sculptures, paintings, crafts and...
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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...
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Public Works of Art may refer to: Public art Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), U.S. government program, 1933–1934 This disambiguation page lists articles...
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New Deal and the arts in New Mexico (category Public Works of Art Project)
Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture, the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the Works Progress Administration (WPA)/Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP), and...
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Thomas C. Lea III (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
bulk of his art and literary works were about Texas, north-central Mexico, and his World War II experience in the South Pacific and Asia. Two of his most...
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who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. It was set up on May 6,...
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artworks on permanent public display in Western Australia. This list include only works of public art accessible in an outdoor public space; it does not...
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Astronomers Monument (category Public Works of Art Project)
in front of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California is a New Deal artwork created under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Project. The large...
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
Angeles art scene for the next several decades. He was the director of the Southern California division of the Works Project Administration Federal Art Project...
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definition of public art by its absence of public process or public sanction as "bona fide" public art. Common characteristics of public art are public accessibility...
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Gustave Baumann (category Federal Art Project artists)
recognized for his role in the 1930s as area coordinator of the Public Works of Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Gustave Baumann was born in...
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member, 1933–39, critical of FERA Public Works of Art Project Social Security (United States) Trowbridge, D.J. (2016). A History of the United States: 1865...
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The first of these projects, the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), was created after successful lobbying by the unemployed artists of the Artists...
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Alice Neel (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
Progress Administration. At the end of 1933, Neel was offered $30 a week to participate in the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) during an interview at the...
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Paul Cadmus (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
age of 29, he painted The Fleet's In! while working for the Public Works of Art Project. This painting, which featured carousing sailors and women, included...
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Juliana Force (category People associated with the Whitney Museum of American Art)
administrator of Region 2 (New York City and State) of the New Deal-era Public Works of Art Project. Force was born to Maxmillian Rieser and Juliana Schmutz in Doylestown...
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recognize works addressing issues of racism and diversity. The Public Works of Art Project came to Cleveland in 1933, with far-reaching lines of job-seeking...
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Leonard Bahr (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
23rd Psalm of David that was published in 1933. Bahr painted murals for the Public Works of Art Project (1933–34). In 1934 he made the mural of Mary Caroll...
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Grant Wood (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
his public persona. In 1934, Wood was offered a position working and teaching in Iowa City as Director of a New Deal Public Works of Art Project (PWAP)...
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Relief Art Project were overseen by Edward Bruce, who had directed the Public Works of Art Project (1933–1934). They were commission-driven public work...
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Santos Zingale (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
that were part of the New Deal, including the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project. At this time he notably created murals for the Sturgeon...
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Walter Inglis Anderson (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
mural in the auditorium of the Ocean Springs Public School ("Ocean Springs Past and Present") as part of Public Works of Art Project. Paintings from this...
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artistic creation of aesthetic value. Except for "work of art", which may be used of any work regarded as art in its widest sense, including works from literature...
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The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by...
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Coit Tower (category Public Works of Art Project)
American Social Realism style formed the pilot project of the Public Works of Art Project, the first of the New Deal federal employment programs for artists...
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Hyman Bloom (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
In the 1930s Bloom worked sporadically for the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project, and for his brothers. He was a slow, methodical...
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Oscar Florianus Bluemner (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
(1990). "The Avant-Garde in Boston: The Experiment of the WPA Federal Art Project". Archives of American Art Journal. 30 (1–4): 41–47. doi:10.1086/aaa.30.1_4...
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Ernest Martin Hennings (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
Lutcher Stark. Hennings also received support from the Public Works of Art Project and the Section of Painting and Sculpture, which commissioned the mural...
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Louis Schanker (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
jobs available. Artists were included in the Public Works of Art Project and then the WPA Federal Art Project. Schanker participated in both beginning in...
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Pink Palace Museum and Planetarium (category Public Works of Art Project)
by the Public Works of Art Project of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's government, as part of a series of numerous art and public works projects to employ...
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