"East Side West Side Exhibition of Photographs", New York City Federal Art Project, WPA, 1938

The Federal Art Project (FAP) was the visual arts arm of the Great Depression-era New Deal WPA Federal One program in the United States. Reputed to have created more than 200,000 separate works, FAP artists created posters, murals and paintings; some of which stand among the most significant pieces of public art in the country. Opening August 29, 1935, as the latest in a short series of Depression-art visual arts programs, it closed on June 30, 1943. Its primary goals were to employ out-of-work artists and to provide art for non-federal government buildings: county courthouses, post offices, libraries and the like. The work was divided into art production, art instruction and art research; the primary output of the art research group was the Index of American Design. Image File history File links East_side_west_side. ... Image File history File links East_side_west_side. ... Many times, the term art is used to refer to the visual arts. ... The Great Depression was an economic downturn which started in 1929 (although its effects were not fully felt until late 1930) and lasted through most of the 1930s. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: New Deal For other uses of New Deal and The New Deal, see New Deal (disambiguation). ... The Works Progress Administration (later Works Projects Administration, abbreviated WPA), was created on May 6, 1935 with the signing of Executive Order 7034. ... Categories: Historical stubs | New Deal ... The term public art properly refers to works of art in any media that has been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the public domain, usually outside and accessible to all. ... August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ...

Louis Schanker, Leon Bibel, Jackson Pollock, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, William Gropper, Jacob Lawrence, William Baziotes, Albert Kotin, Alton Tobey, Conrad Marca-Relli, Eleanor Coen, William Sommer, Donal Hord, Dorr Bothwell, Werner Drewes, and Ben Shahn, Harry Shoulberg, Harry Gottlieb were some of the well-known artists supported by the project. Willem de Kooning belonged to the project, but had to leave since he was an illegal alien, not a US citizen at that time. He became a US citizen in 1962, Leon Bibel (1913-1995) was a Polish-American painter and printmaker during the Great Depression. ... Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement. ... Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 - March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter. ... Philip Guston ([Montreal, Canada [July 27]], 1913 - [Woodstock, N.Y.[June 7]], 1980) was one of the most important painters of the New York School, which also numbered many of the Abstract Expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning. ... William Gropper (born 1897 in New York; died 1977) was a U.S. cartoonist, painter, lithographer, and muralist. ... Jacob Lawrence taken by Kenneth Space. ... William Baziotes (1912 – 1963) was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism. ... Albert Kotin (1907 - 1980) belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist Artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. ... Alton Tobey (Alton S. Tobey, 1914-2005), was an American artist, muralist, and illustrator. ... Conrad Marca-Relli (1912 – 2000) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... William Sommer (1867 – 1949) was an American Modernist painter. ... Guardian of the Waters, 1939, San Diego, CA Donal Hord (1902 – 1966), an American sculptor, was born Donald Horr in Prentice, Wisconsin on February 26, 1902. ... Dorr Hodgson Bothwell (May 3, 1902 - September 24, 2000) was an American artist, designer, educator, and world-traveller. ... Werner Drewes, 1940 Drewes, Pencil Sketch Werner Drewes (1899-1985) was a German-American painter and printmaker, born in 1899 in Canig, Germany. ... Sacco & Vanzetti mosaic by Ben Shahn, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 - March 14, 1969) was a Lithuanian-born American artist and teacher. ... Harry Gottlieb 1895 - 1993 Harry Gottlieb, painter, screenprinter, lithographer, and educator, was born in Bucharest, Rumania. ... Willem de Koonings Woman V (1952-53) Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was an abstract expressionist painter, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. ...

See also

List of WPA artists Visual artists who worked for the WPA Federal Art Project Maxine Albro Bruce Ariss Victor Mikhail Arnautoff Leonard Bahr Norman Barr William Baziotes Thomas Hart Benton Aaron Berkman Jane Clara Howard Berlandina Leon Bibel George Biddle Dorothy Block Dorr Bothwell Raymond Sceptre Boynton Samuel Cashwan Grant Wright Christian Eleanor Coen...

External links

• wpamurals.com: W.P.A. - New Deal Art During the Great Depression
• "Art Within Reach": Federal Art Project Community Art Centers
• Mark K. Christ & Sandra Taylor Smith, Arkansas Post Offices and the Treasury Department's Section Art Program, 1938-1942. Little Rock, Arkansas Historic Preservation Program.
• Louis Schanker and the WPA in New York