The Collection at the Treasury building includes 62 works of art from the New Deal WPA arts programs that operated over a ten year period from 1933 to 1943. The Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project was the largest and the most widely known program.

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, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the largest of the New Deal art projects.

Feb 15, 2025 · 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 visual arts projects conceived during the Depression of the 1930s by the administration of President Franklin D. …

GSA OIG has been partnering with GSA’s Fine Arts Program to recover misplaced and stolen pieces of art.

The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) of the Works Progress Administration was the largest of the New Deal art projects. [1] As many as 10,000 artists [2] were employed to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photography, Index of American Design documentation, theatre scenic design, and arts and crafts. [3]

Aug 6, 2007 · On May 6, 1935, the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) was created to help provide economic relief to the citizens of the United States who were suffering through the Great Depression. The Federal Art Project was one of the divisions …

During its years of operation, the government-funded Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) hired hundreds of artists who collectively created more than 100,000 paintings and murals and over 18,000 sculptures to be found in municipal buildings, schools, and hospitals in all of the 48 states.

Jun 8, 2020 · With little focus on upholding traditional notions of talent, the Federal Art Project inadvertently fostered some of modern art's most groundbreaking artists. In 1940, African American painter Jacob Lawrence would break boundaries with his colorful Migration Series, while Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko would ...

The Work Projects Administration (WPA) Poster Collection consists of 907 posters produced from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.

Sep 22, 2023 · This guide summarizes the Prints & Photographs Division’s prints by artists of the Federal Art Project, Graphic Art Division, 1935-1943–part of the Work Projects Administration. Includes information about accessing the prints and related resources.