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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 ...

A New Deal for the Arts - National Archives

During the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s and into the early years of World War II, the Federal government supported the arts in unprecedented ...

Art of the New Deal - FDR Presidential Library & Museum

Government art programs rescued artists from poverty and despair. But they also served a larger purpose-to give all Americans access to art and culture. New ...

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

New Deal Art Programs · Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), 1933-1934 · Section, 1934-1943 · Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP), 1935-1939 · Works ...

New Deal Artwork: GSA's Inventory Project

During the New Deal era, the U.S. Government administered four separate art projects that operated from 1933 to 1943. The projects produced ...

New Deal and the Arts - Oxford Research Encyclopedias

The art projects created government jobs intended to put to work unemployed professionals creating culture. Creative jobs for out-of-work ...

New Deal Programs

The New Deal was an amalgam of dozens of programs and agencies created by the Roosevelt Administration and the Congress. Some came into being by law, ...

1934: The Art of the New Deal - Smithsonian Magazine

Artists were recruited through newspaper advertisements placed around the country; the whole program was up and running in a couple of weeks. People lined up in ...

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, ...

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

WPA Federal Art Project, first major attempt at government patronage of the visual arts in the United States and the most extensive and influential of the ...

New Deal Art: An Introduction

First, New Deal art programs extended access to the arts throughout the country, cutting across the rural-urban divides and other social barriers. Second, they ...

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 ...

New Deal | Artworks - GSA Fine Arts Collection

The New Deal art programs of the 1930s not only provided employment for artists, but allowed everyday Americans to enjoy artwork in their communities.

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

1934: A New Deal for Artists was organized to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Public Works of Art Project by drawing on the Smithsonian American Art ...

New Deal Era Culture, Race, and Gender – Our Story

During the New Deal era (roughly 1933-1940), American culture, to include art, music, and Hollywood, spanned the gambit from realism (as in the painting above) ...

Artists of the New Deal

Art projects were a major part of this series of federal relief programs, like the Public Works of Art Project, the Treasury Section of Painting ...

How American Art Made Relief, Recovery, and Reform a National ...

... New Deal: political measures, economic programs, and cultural projects aimed at providing relief, recovery, and reform. The government also became the major ...

Art, Culture, and Government: The New Deal at 75

An especially exciting development for the scholarly research community was the unveiling of the guide New Deal Programs: Selected Library of Congress Resources ...

Work Pays America - A New Deal for the Arts

It had a close relationship with many of the federal art projects. Federal Theatre troupes entertained at CCC camps, and Federal Art Project workers gave ...

New Deal artwork - Wikipedia

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