American WPA Era Art
New Deal Art
Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art
Sargent Claude Johnson: A Masterpiece Restored (2/28/14)
Modern Dialect: from the John & Susan Horseman Collection (8/21/13)
California Scene Paintings from 1930 to 1960 (4/15/13)
The Ceramic Sculpture of Waylande Gregory; artilce by Thomas Folk (3/22/13)
Maurice Merlin and the American Scene, 1930-1947 (2/7/13)
(above: Robert Archer, Approaching Storm, c. 1938, oil on canvas, 24.2 x 30.2 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1971.447.3. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
A Federal Art Project: Posters for Indian Court (5/3/12)
WPA Artists in Print (12/10/10)
The American Scene: New Deal Art 1935-1943 (9/15/10)
Surviving Hard Times: WPA Artists; essay by Sue Ann Robinson (11/10/09)
William Palmer: Drawing from Life (9/2/09)
Grant Wood: An American Master Revealed; article by Brady Roberts & James M. Dennis (4/22/09)
(above: August Casciano, Blue Monday, 1937, oil on canvas, 28.1 x 30.1 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1971.447.17. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
American Printmakers and the Federal Art Project; essay by Mary Francey (10/18/08)
The Federal Art Project: Supporting Good Artists in Bad Times (1/24/08)
Craft in America - Expanding Traditions (11/20/07)
Grant Wood's Corn Room Mural (9/17/07)
Howard Cook: Drawings of Alabama; essay by Stephen Goldfarb (2/23/07)
For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s (1/23/07)
America at Work: WPA Prints from the Gibbes Collection (11/9/06)
(above: Josephine Joy, CCC Camp Balboa Park, 1933-37, oil on canvas, 18.1 x 24.1 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1971.447.41. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
The W.P.A. Era: Art Across America (8/17/04)
The Nebraska FERA Art Exhibit; article by Ernest F. Witte (8/15/03)
Depression Legacy: Nebraska's Post Office Art; article by Elizabeth Anderson (8/13/03)
New Deal Artist Ernest E. Stevens; article by Florence Canfield Burden (8/1/03)
Sante Graziani, born 1920, Mural, 1943-1947; essay by Mary E. Kinnecome (1/3/02)
(above: Moses Soyer, Children at Play and Sport I, c. 1938, oil on canvas, 91 x 73 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1974.89.2. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
Wisconsin's New Art Deal, essay segment by Mary Michie (9/29/01)
Prints of American Life: WPA Works on Paper from the Webster Collection (8/23/01)
WPA Collection at Rockford Art Museum (7/21/99)
Sin Nombre: Hispana and Hispano Artists of the New Deal Era (5/29/99)
(above: Moses Soyer, Children at Play and Sport II, c. 1938, oil on canvas, 91 x 73 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1974.89.1. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
(above: Walton Blodgett, Lonesome Alley, 1936, watercolor and pencil on paper, 15.8 x 10.3 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1980.128.5. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
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