American WPA Era Art, New Deal Art DVD/VHS videos

American WPA Era Art

New Deal Art

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Artists at Work: The New Deal Art Projects Describes visual arts programs developed in 1935--43 by the U. S. government to support American artists during the Depression. 35-minute video. Description source: Amon Carter Museum Teacher Resource Center. The Museum contains a comprehensive lending library including many videos. TFAO wishes to extend appreciation to Katherine Moloney, Teaching and Visual Resources Coordinator, for acquainting TFAO with the Museum's collection. Available through Las Positas College Library.

Promises Kept: WPA Art Treasures of New Mexico [26:32] In small towns across New Mexico are treasures from one of New Mexico's great artistic periods. For years they have been hidden away in schools, post offices and court houses. Promises Kept rediscovers our WPA artistic heritage by interviewing some of the remaining WPA artists such as Pablita Velarde and by looking closely at the artists and artworks themselves. The goal: to form a new respect, appreciation and to help preserve this treasures for generations to come. Funded in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Office of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts and the National New Deal Art Restoration Task Force. Orginally broadcast on New Mexico PBS station KNME.

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(above: Prescott Jones, McKinley Park Station in Snow, c. 1933-43, 19.1 x 25.5 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1972.95. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

(above: Vernon Smith, Foot of Glacier, Valdez, Alaska, c. 1933-43, 16 x 20 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1972.28. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

(above: Arthur Kerrick, Russian Church and Three Mountains, Sitka,1938, watercolor, 18.5 x 28 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1972.30. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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