American WPA Era Art
New Deal Art
Online videos:
April, 2023 screenshot via Google video search.
The American Art channel
of ArtBabble as of August, 2009 included "1934: A New Deal for Artists"
from Smithsonian American Art Museum [0:30:32]
From the Library of Congress, By the
People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 includes as
of 2013 a section on special presentations including Interview
with WPA Silkscreen Artist Tony Velonis from a December, 1994 symposium
on the WPA titled "Amassing American Stuff: The New Deal Arts Collections
of the Library of Congress." The online interview with master
silkscreen printer Anthony (Tony) Velonis took place at that time as one
of several in-depth interviews with notable figures of the WPA projects.
(description from LOC web site) Accessed August, 2015.
From the Museum
of International Folk Art, the
online exhibition Sin Nombre: Hispana and Hispano Artists of the New
Deal Era includes as of 2013 the curator's video introduction of the
exhibition. Accessed August, 2015.
Oceanside Museum of
Art WPA Depression-era art from KPBS.
Post Office Art and
Architecture in Central PA Blinks says: "Produced by WVIA-TV, this
2 minute trailer promotes film called "New Deal Legacy" that features
unique post office art and architecture in Lewisburg, Selinsgrove, Mifflinburg,
Northumberland, Milton, Bellefonte, Danville, Bloomsburg, Williamsport and
Renovo." Accessed August, 2015.
Weisman Art Museum's
'New Deal' Blinks says: "The Weisman Art Museum is presenting
about 1,000 paintings, prints and murals from New Deal-era artists (2:30)."
(above: Florence Kawa, The Workers, c. 1935, block printed on cotton plain weave, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
(above: Edward Morton, Loggers, 1936, 15.8 x 19.2 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1974.28.150. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
(above: Howard Taft Lorenz, Home Relief Bureau, c. 1940, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1971.447.55. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
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