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    The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) was a New Deal work-relief program that employed professional artists to create sculptures, paintings, crafts and...
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  • Public Works of Art may refer to: Public art Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), U.S. government program, 1933–1934 This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the largest of the New Deal art projects. It was created...
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    who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. It was set up on May 6,...
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    Thomas C. Lea III (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
    bulk of his art and literary works were about Texas, north-central Mexico, and his World War II experience in the South Pacific and Asia. Two of his most...
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    New Deal and the arts in New Mexico (category Public Works of Art Project)
    Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture, the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the Works Progress Administration (WPA)/Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP), and...
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    James Redmond (artist) (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
    (likely an easel painting or lithograph) was included in the Public Works of Art Project exhibitions at the Los Angeles Museum, the Corcoran Gallery in...
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  • definition of public art by its absence of public process or public sanction as "bona fide" public art. Common characteristics of public art are public accessibility...
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    Edward Bruce (New Deal) (category Public Works of Art Project)
    administrator of the New Deal art projects of the United States Department of the Treasury: the Public Works of Art Project (1933–1934), the Section of Painting...
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    member, 1933–39, critical of FERA Public Works of Art Project Social Security (United States) Trowbridge, D.J. (2016). A History of the United States: 1865...
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    Relief Art Project were overseen by Edward Bruce, who had directed the Public Works of Art Project (1933–1934). They were commission-driven public work...
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  • Edith Hamlin (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
    realism murals created while working with the Public Works of Art Project, Federal Art Project and the Section of Painting and Sculpture during the Great Depression...
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    Coit Tower (category Public Works of Art Project)
    American Social Realism style formed the pilot project of the Public Works of Art Project, the first of the New Deal federal employment programs for artists...
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    Astronomers Monument (category Public Works of Art Project)
    in front of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California is a New Deal artwork created under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Project. The large...
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    The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by...
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  • Emiliano Abeyta (category 20th-century indigenous painters of the Americas)
    artist in the Public Works of Art Project as part of the New Deal. Already an established artist by that time, he worked for the program out of the Santa...
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  • union of artists in New York in the years of the Great Depression. It was influential in the establishment of both the Public Works of Art Project in December...
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    Juliana Force (category People associated with the Whitney Museum of American Art)
    administrator of Region 2 (New York City and State) of the New Deal-era Public Works of Art Project. Force was born to Maxmillian Rieser and Juliana Schmutz in Doylestown...
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    Alice Neel (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
    Progress Administration. At the end of 1933, Neel was offered $30 a week to participate in the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) during an interview at the...
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    Gustave Baumann (category Federal Art Project artists)
    recognized for his role in the 1930s as area coordinator of the Public Works of Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Gustave Baumann was born in...
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    artistic creation of aesthetic value. Except for "work of art", which may be used of any work regarded as art in its widest sense, including works from literature...
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    The first of these projects, the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), was created after successful lobbying by the unemployed artists of the Artists...
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  • tools. A part of the images are used within Wikimedia, see the category Google Art Project works by collection. The following list of collections is...
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    Samuel Joseph Brown Jr. (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
    for the Public Works of Art Project, a precursor to the Work Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Brown often depicted the lives of African...
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    Stanton Macdonald-Wright (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
    Angeles art scene for the next several decades. He was the director of the Southern California division of the Works Project Administration Federal Art Project...
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    Paul Cadmus (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
    age of 29, he painted The Fleet's In! while working for the Public Works of Art Project. This painting, which featured carousing sailors and women, included...
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    Grant Wood (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
    estate, along with Wood's personal effects and various works of art, became the property of the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa. The World War II Liberty...
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    The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) of the Works Progress Administration was the largest of the New Deal art projects. As many as 10,000 artists were...
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  • Max Arthur Cohn (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
    Project and the Public Works of Art Project. At this period he took up silk screening, a technique he had learned in a commercial art studio in 1920....
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    Frederick Olmsted Jr. (category Public Works of Art Project artists)
    realism themed murals and sculptures for the Federal Art Project, and the Public Works of Art Project. Later, he became a scientist and biophysicist at Yale...
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