Author: O'Connor Francis V.

Publication Year: 1971

Media Type: Book

Summary:

This book is an anthology of memoirs of artists who received support from various New Deal art projects. The book is divided into four sections: 1) the administration of the Projects; 2) the experience of creative artists working as muralist, sculptors, easel painters, printmakers, and illustrators; 3) recollections of organizations and events related to the creative projects; 4) a concluding dialogue between four of the authors and the editor which offers a lively insight into the impact of the period on American cultural history.

Abstract:

This book is an anthology of memoirs of artists who received support from various New Deal art projects. The book is divided into four sections: 1) the administration of the Projects; 2) the experience of creative artists working as muralist, sculptors, easel painters, printmakers, and illustrators; 3) recollections of organizations and events related to the creative projects; 4) a concluding dialogue between four of the authors and the editor which offers a lively insight into the impact of the period on American cultural history.

CONTENTS
Introduction by Francis V. O'Connor.

Part 1. The administration of the New Deal art projects.

The New Deal's Treasury Art Program: a memoir by Olin Dows.
A general view of the WPA Federal Art Project in New York City and State by Audrey McMahon.
The New Deal mural projects by Edward Laning.

Part 2. The Creative Division of the New Deal art projects.

The Easel Division of the WPA Federal art project by Joseph Solman.
The New Deal sculpture projects by Robert Cronbach.
The Graphic Arts Division of the WPA Federal art project by Jacob Kainen.
The Index of American Design Federal art project by Lincoln Rothschild.

Part 3. The New Deal art projects and related evnets.

Artists' organizations of the Depression decade by Lincoln Rothschild.
The American abstract artists and the WPA Federal art project by Rosalind Bengelsdorf Browne.
The WPA Federal art project and the New York World's Fair, 1939-1940 by Olive Lyford Gavert.
A memoir of The New York City municipal galleries, 1936-1939 by Marchal E. Landgren.

Part 4. Dialogue.

Audrey McMahon, Marchal E. Landgren, Jacob Kainen, Olive Lyford Gavert, Francis V. O'Connor.

Selected bibliography.
Index of names.

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Categories: Funding