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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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doi:10.2307/25157905. ISSN 0162-2897. JSTOR 25157905. “The WPA Projects: PUBLIC ART THROUGHOUT THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY." Los Angeles Times, Nov 13, 1994...
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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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United States Post Office (Fort Worth, Texas) (category National Register of Historic Places in Fort Worth, Texas)
commissioned by the Public Works of Art Project in 1934, created by Fort Worth artists Dwight Clay Holmes and William Henry Baker. National Register of Historic...
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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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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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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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Max Arthur Cohn (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
Project and the Public Works of Art Project. At this period he took up silk screening, a technique he had learned in a commercial art studio in 1920....
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James Daugherty (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
Daugherty's depiction of the Bunker Hill hero and Connecticut native Israel Putnam in a mural commissioned by Public Works of Art Project for the town hall...
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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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