20th-21st Century AmericanWPA- Sculpture

20th-21st Century American WPA Sculpture

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(above: Malvina Hoffman, Coal Miners Returning From Work, 1939, bas relief, United States Post Office, Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

(above: Jeno Juszko, General George Henry Thomas, 1939, bronze sculpture. Photo: Sol Horn. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

(above: Josephine Frankel Levy working on her sculpture The Wrestlers, 1939, unidentified photographer. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

(above: Lillian Shaw painting for the WPA, Federal Art Project. c. 1939, Photographer: Sol Horn, Identification on accompanying label (typewritten): Lillian Shaw, sculptor, excels in painting, a delicate process of treating plaster figures so that they resemble bronze, terra cotta and other permanent mediums. She went, on scholarships, to the Art Students League, the Leonardo Da Vinci School, and the American Artists School. In the photo she is shown painting a figure by Richard Barthe [sic; likely Richmond Barthé], fellow artist on the WPA Federal Art Project. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

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