Artists Call on Jewish Museum’s Support to Save New Deal-Era Murals

The Cohen Building, which houses works by Jewish artists Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and Seymour Fogel, among others, is slated for sale by the Trump administration.

Hyperallergic

"Milk - for summer thirst"

Ohio -- Federal Art Project -- 1940 Works Projects Administration -- Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress) -- POS - WPA - OH .01 .M562, no. 1 (C size) [P&P]

#Art #Poster #USArt #AmericanArt #WPA #FAP #WorksProjectsAdministration #WorksProgressAdministration #FederalArtProject #20thCenturyArt #NewDeal #Milk

@dinelli

Você pode gostar de navegar por esta coleção de pôsteres da WPA.

You might enjoy browsing this collection of WPA posters:

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/wpapos/

#Posters #GraphicArt #WPA #WorksProjectsAdministration #WorksProgressAdministration #USArt #NewDeal #LibraryOfCongress

Federal Dance Theatre presents Salut au monde adapted from a poem of that name by Walt Whitman.

Richard Halls (artist) -- New York City : Federal Art Project, [1936 or 1937] -- Silkscreen -- POS - WPA - NY .H355, no. 11 (B size) [P&P] -- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

#Art #Poster #RichardHalls #FederalArtProject #FAP #WorksProgressAdministration #WPA #FederalDanceTheatre #Dance #Tamiris #USHistory #NewDeal

Alvar Street Branch, New Orleans Public Library, Bywater, built by the US Works Progress Administration, 1940. WPA description of the time states "The building is of monolithic concrete and cost approximately $32,000 [...] It serves a thickly populated downtown section and has an overall dimension of 40x60 feet."
1) Under construction, February 1940. WPA photo via New Orleans Public Library. (Note the poster for Earl K. Long!)

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#NewOrleans #Library #WPA
@noladon

Poster for Cleveland Division of Health -- Ohio : WPA Art Program -- 1940 -- Federal Art Project -- 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color -- Library of Congress Work Projects Administration Poster Collection -- POS - WPA - OH .01 .S785, no. 1 (C size) [P&P]

#USHistory #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #FederalArtProject #NewDeal #Poster #Swimming #Art #USArt #AmericanArt #20thCenturyArt #Cleveland

Have You Ever Wondered What A New Concrete Stilling Well [stream gauge] Looked Like?
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H/T Roy Socolow, USGS
"While doing research on the USGS stream gaging program for a local presentation, [he] found this beautiful image of a classic stilling well from the Kentucky archives. Intakes and valve stems in perfect condition, hand pump and flush tank ready to fill, no kerosene or funky well water smell, and the clock weights on the Stevens recorder have plenty of travel room. Makes them] think of the good old days climbing down well ladders to “muck out” wells. Many of these “tanks” of instrument shelters still exist with either working intakes or as converted bubble gages. Many others have been decommissioned due to safety issues (falling or confined space hazards). Thanks to the men of the #CCC and #WPA..."
#gage #streamflow #instrumentation #hydrology #measurement #history #waterresources #stillingwell #recording #USGS #fedscience #fedservice
@USGS
#WoodyGuthrie came to the #PNW to write tunes about the #WPA. In this video one of his #protest times is used to accompany footage of Ice going after peaceful protesters in #Portland. youtu.be/_qjcZKAbCdA?...

All You Fascists by Woody Guth...
All You Fascists by Woody Guthrie. Portland animal dancing protests. DEAN MEDIA 2025 (c).

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There Was a Plan to Save These New Deal Masterpieces. Then Trump Won.
A feasibility study was underway about restoring the ailing federal building that houses important Ben Shahn frescoes, Philip Guston murals, and other FDR-era artwork. But the Trump administration put a stop to it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/201204/ben-shahn-murals-new-deal-cohen-building-trump
#CulturalHeritage #ArtHistory #Murals #MuralArt #Frescoes #WPA #NewDeal #ModernArt #FascismInTheUSA #AmericanArt
There Was a Plan to Save These New Deal Masterpieces. Then Trump Won.

A feasibility study was underway about restoring the ailing federal building that houses important Ben Shahn frescoes, Philip Guston murals, and other FDR-era artwork. But the Trump administration put a stop to it.

The New Republic