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Art of the New Deal - FDR Presidential Library & Museum

New Deal artists brought theater, music, and dance to every corner of the nation and created hundreds of thousands of paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture.

New Deal Artwork: GSA's Inventory Project

GSA aims to provide a centralized resource of information about New Deal artwork that is readily available to museum professionals, the academic community, art ...

New Deal artwork - Wikipedia

New Deal artwork ... New Deal artwork is an umbrella term used to describe the creative output organized and funded by the Roosevelt administration's New Deal ...

1934: The Art of the New Deal - Smithsonian Magazine

The premise of the PWAP was that artists should be held to the same standards of production and public value as workers wielding shovels in the national parks.

Artists of the New Deal

Dorothea Lange is one of the most influential photographers of the FSA, and one of the best-known women photographers ever.

The New Deal Creative Arts Center – Let creativity rule!

An inclusive space for artists and audiences to explore and celebrate the intersections of the innovative and traditional through various methods of arts and ...

Federal Art Project - Wikipedia

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, ...

1934: A New Deal for Artists | Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) enlisted artists to capture “the American Scene” in works of art that would embellish public buildings across the ...

Artists helped lift America out of the Great Depression. Could ... - Vox

In the 1930s, as part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and its Works Progress Administration effort, the federal government hired more than ...

A New Deal for the Arts - National Archives

Most New Deal artists were grateful to President Roosevelt for giving them work and enthusiastically supported the New Deal's liberal agenda. Not surprisingly, ...

New Deal Art Programs and Social Realism - Ann Rice O'Hanlon ...

Artists working in this style created art in public spaces that exposed social, racial, and economic inequities with the goal of inspiring ...

New Deal | Artworks - GSA Fine Arts Collection

In 1934, the federal government began loaning or allocating artworks created under the New Deal art programs to public agencies and nonprofit institutions ...

WPA Federal Art Project | US Depression Era Art, History & Impact

WPA Federal Art Project, first major attempt at government patronage of the visual arts ... How FDR's New Deal changed the U.S.Learn about the New ...

The Work of Art: The Federal Art Project, 1935–1943

During the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal initiated a series of nationwide support programs for the visual arts. The largest and ...

New Deal and the Arts - Oxford Research Encyclopedias

In a brief flowering of public art, the New Deal funded thousands of needy and meritorious artists to decorate, document, entertain, and teach the nation.

New Deal Art: An Introduction

New Deal programs patronized art that was meaningful, accessible, and owned by the American people, thereby interrupting a pattern of favoritism towards white ...

New Deal Cultural Programs - Webster's World of Cultural Democracy

Introduction: Federal Cultural Programs of the 1930's. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal cultural programs marked the U.S. government's first big, direct ...

1934: A New Deal for Artists | Smithsonian American Art Museum

During the Great Depression, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised a “new deal for the American people,” initiating government programs to foster ...

A New Deal for the Arts - National Archives

In the highly charged political atmosphere of the Great Depression, left-wing project employees not only painted, acted, and wrote, they demonstrated, published ...

Artists at Work: A Film on the New Deal Art Projects

A documentary film about a series of programs known as the New Deal Art Projects, which allowed thousands of artists to make a living devoting themselves to ...