Federal Art Project

During the Depression, in 1929 Berkman moved to New York City where he was appointed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to oversee the Federal Art Project’s Contemporary Art ...

Charles Ragland Bunnell is recognized as one of the key figures in early American modernism and a significant contributor to WPA-era art in Colorado. After training at the Broadmoor ...

From 1934 to 1940, Refregier, living in New York City, worked on various WPA Federal Art Projects* as a teacher, supervising artist, and mural supervisor.

From 1926 he moved to the United States and during the tremendous years of the economic crisis he created frescoes on commission from the WPA Federal Art Project. During the Second W...

From 1926 he moved to the United States and during the tremendous years of the economic crisis he created frescoes on commission from the WPA Federal Art Project. During the Second W...

Later in the 1930's, he worked as a painter and muralist on the Federal Art Project of the WPA, Works Progress Administration, the Government-sponsored effort to create work for arti...

Back in the US, Morris was tasked with opening the Spokane Art Center through the Federal Art Project during the Depression.

He also participated in the Federal Art Project throughout its entire duration from 1935 to 1943.

From 1926 he moved to the United States and during the tremendous years of the economic crisis he created frescoes on commission from the WPA Federal Art Project. During the Second W...

During the Great Depression, Schwartz became an artist on the Federal Art Project payroll. Working under the supervision of Increase Robinson in Chicago, he painted Regionalist works...

Cunningham was both a revered teacher at both Mills College and UC Berkeley as well as a muralist and easel painter for the WPA Federal Art Project. In 1959, the Cunninghams founded ...

During the Great Depression, Schwartz became an artist on the Federal Art Project payroll. Working under the supervision of Increase Robinson in Chicago, he painted Regionalist works...

Later in the 1930's, he became active with the Federal Art Project, later the WPA, while also painting theatrical scenery and murals.

From 1926 he moved to the United States and during the tremendous years of the economic crisis he created frescoes on commission from the WPA Federal Art Project. During the Second W...

From 1934 to 1940, Refregier, living in New York City, worked on various WPA Federal Art Projects* as a teacher, supervising artist, and mural supervisor.

Diller promoted abstract painting through his employment as the Director of the Mural Division of the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Projects until 1940, aiding and comm...

He was a participant in the Federal Art Project during the 1930s. An American artist, Ennis eventually moved to New York, City and to his final home place in the small fishing port ...

Paul School of Art in the 1930s. He was the state director of the Work Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in South Dakota, where he met and married Dorothy Scallin Turnle...

During the Great Depression Farruggio worked for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1939.

Bolotowsky's mural for the Williamsburg Housing Project in Brooklyn, was one of the first abstract murals done under the Federal Art Project.

Federal Art Project. In the early 1930's Huse acquired a country studio in the small Vermont village of Pownal, which might be the subject of this striking work.

He also taught and lectured on art and easel painting, Federal Art Project, NYC.

From 1926 he moved to the United States and during the tremendous years of the economic crisis he created frescoes on commission from the WPA Federal Art Project. During the Second W...

From 1926 he moved to the United States and during the tremendous years of the economic crisis he created frescoes on commission from the WPA Federal Art Project. During the Second W...

From 1926 he moved to the United States and during the tremendous years of the economic crisis he created frescoes on commission from the WPA Federal Art Project. During the Second W...

From 1926 he moved to the United States and during the tremendous years of the economic crisis he created frescoes on commission from the WPA Federal Art Project. During the Second W...

From 1926 he moved to the United States and during the tremendous years of the economic crisis he created frescoes on commission from the WPA Federal Art Project. During the Second W...

From 1926 he moved to the United States and during the tremendous years of the economic crisis he created frescoes on commission from the WPA Federal Art Project. During the Second W...

Bolotowsky's mural for the Williamsburg Housing Project in Brooklyn, was one of the first abstract murals done under the Federal Art Project.

In the US, Troy joined the Federal Art Project in 1935, where he worked for the Easel and Graphics Division of the Illinois Art Project.

In the 1930s, he was accepted into the famous artist’s colony Yaddo, but instead took a position teaching at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, funded through the WPA’s Federal Art Project,...

From 1926 he moved to the United States and during the tremendous years of the economic crisis he created frescoes on commission from the WPA Federal Art Project. During the Second W...

From 1926 he moved to the United States and during the tremendous years of the economic crisis he created frescoes on commission from the WPA Federal Art Project. During the Second W...

Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Aaron B...

Despite the Depression, he flourished as both artist and teacher under the Federal Art Project. In 1944 he began working at Atelier 17 in New York, exhibiting in the 1945 exhibition ...

In the early 1930s, he attended evening studies with Hans Hofmann’s School of Fine Art. In 1934, Cavallon became employed with the Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project a...

Xceron's work was added to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art; he received a mural commission for Riker's Island under the Federal Art Project; and in the 1940s and 1950s, he...

During the Great Depression, Dix was involved with the Works Progress Administration (WPA), producing paintings and murals under the Federal Art Project. Some of his most notable wor...

Before developing his iconic style, Pollock worked for the WPA Federal Art Project and studied under artists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros, who influenced Pollock’s signature experi...

In 1938, her figurines of cowboys, Indians and soldiers toured California as part of the WPA Federal Art Project. Ella Buchanan went to school in Le Mars and at the Betty Steward In...

She executed mural commissions for the Federal Art Project, including Worland Wyoming Post Office in 1937 and Grand Junction Colorado Post Office in 1940.

The University of Michigan Museum of Art, The WPA Federal Art Project: American Prints from the 1930's.

During the Great Depression, Bunnell participated in several New Deal art programs, including the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP), and Federal ...

Despite the Depression, he flourished as both artist and teacher under the Federal Art Project. In 1944 he began working at Atelier 17 in New York, exhibiting in the 1945 exhibition ...

Gershoy participated in the WPA Federal Art Project, taught at numerous schools and San Francisco Art Institute, was the recipient of the Art Grant to Europe and was an artist reside...

In 1936 Romano was worked for the Federal Art Project creating murals. During and immediately after World War II, Romano created a series of allegorical works depicting graphic holoc...

Around this time Bowden also joined the recently established Federal Art Project . During the late 1930s and early 1940s Bowden showed his work in Manhattan, at the Reinhardt Galler...

Geller painted The Accordion Player in 1938 as part of the WPA Federal Art Project, an oil painting in the collection of the MacNider Art Museum in Mason City, Iowa.

Abbot is best known for her series Changing New York (1936–1938), which captured the architecture and shifting social landscape of the city during the Great Depression as a part of t...

Despite the Depression, he flourished as both artist and teacher under the Federal Art Project. In 1944 he began working at Atelier 17 in New York, exhibiting in the 1945 exhibition ...

Pereira helped found Design Laboratory, a school of industrial design underal the Federal Art Project of the WPA. It was modeled after the Bauhaus, encouraging experimentation with m...

During the Depression, Kish became a WPA painter in the Federal Art Project (FAP). FAP artists were given a mandate to create works that celebrated labor.

During the Depression, Kish became a WPA painter in the Federal Art Project (FAP). FAP artists were given a mandate to create works that celebrated labor.

During the Depression, Kish became a WPA painter in the Federal Art Project (FAP). FAP artists were given a mandate to create works that celebrated labor.

While working as a muralist for two months during the mid-1930s with the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, she became influenced by the social activism of Mex...

During the mid to late 1930s, Jackson worked for the Federal Art Project as part of the Index of American Design.

The University of Michigan Museum of Art, The WPA Federal Art Project: American Prints from the 1930's.

The University of Michigan Museum of Art, The WPA Federal Art Project: American Prints from the 1930's.

The University of Michigan Museum of Art, The WPA Federal Art Project: American Prints from the 1930's.

The University of Michigan Museum of Art, The WPA Federal Art Project: American Prints from the 1930's.