In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency in a landslide election. With unemployment rising, investment banks collapsing and the stock market plummeting (sound familiar?), he promised a ...

Helicline Fine Art will debut at The Salon: Art + Design at the Park Avenue Armory, November 6–10, 2025, presenting rare works from its 1939 World’s Fair and WPA-era collections. The exhibition, ...

Ranger of the Lost Art: Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of Our National Parks explores the creation, disappearance, and rediscovery of 14 historic prints created for the National Park Service by the ...

Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect, iconographer, president of New York City’s Art Commission, member of the New York Public Library Board, is as long, as ascetic, as elegantly bearded as an El ...

Eighty years after the federal Works Progress Administration put unemployed artists to work creating sculptures and murals for post offices and courthouses comes this reminder from film maker Michael ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. CLAYTON — A mountain of dust moves in like a monster preparing to devour the town. The 1937 photo of a dust ...

WPA poster for the Second Annual Exhibition of the Sioux City Camera Club (1939), Iowa Federal Art Project, silkscreen (all images via Work Projects Administration Poster Collection of the Library of ...

Drawn from the Art Museum’s permanent collection, Places and Spaces features artwork by American artists produced under the Works Progress Administration (WPA), one of the signature relief programs of ...

Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) is currently hosting "Art For The People: WPA-Era Paintings from the Dijkstra Collection." The exhibit features works created during the Great Depression of the 1930s ...

Four parks in Johnson County are being commemorated with posters in the classic “WPA-style” of art used by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s and memorably employed in posters celebrating ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The La Vern Frank-Rush papers regarding the WPA Art Center in Sioux City, Iowa, measure 0.2 linear feet and 0.277 GB and date from 1936 to 2007 ...