Mastodawn

https://livingnewdeal.org/sites/newark-museum-aerial-map-mural-newark-nj/

Only two of the ten murals Arshile Gorky painted while working in the WPA Federal Arts Project for the Newark Airport Administration Building survive.

As has happened with a number of other New Deal artworks, the other eight have been lost or destroyed.

#Art #TwentiethCenturyArt #NewDeal #FederalArtsProject #FAP #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #ArshileGorky #NewarkAirport #USArt #AmericanArt

Newark Airport Administration Building Murals at Newark Museum – Newark NJ

'Between 1935 and 1937, Gorky painted ten large-scale murals on the theme of aviation for the Newark Airport Administration Building. This mural cycle, known as Aviation: Evolution of Forms under Aerodynamic Limitations, was among the first modernist murals created

Living New Deal

WA.tv Feb 7

The #WorksProgressAdmin later turned #WorkProjectsAdmin was a federal agency that employed over 3.3M at its peak. The Griffith Observatory in #LA, #OregonStateLibrary and #DockStreetTheatre in Charleston, South Carolina are all #WPA projects. #photography #americana #wa #california #architecture #californication #canon80d #colorphotography #blackandwhitephotography #travel #photos #trivia #funfacts

NullNoMore Feb 5

Walking in my neighborhood. I should keep my eyes up but I was doing a mumble walk.
#WPA

Nikolas Kozloff Jan 24

No #fascist #demolition of #WPA- era #mural in #DC
https://hyperallergic.com/artists-call-on-jewish-museums-support-to-save-new-deal-era-murals/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPhAyVjbGNrA-EC4mV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHgnURK6gkEYeVRijUCFN9cyL1yKW-wNBmz6iPfb-n3wyxMrB9_mYvIg65nVj_aem_yzu8lQt8XXIRuIKlygvbJQ #artdeco #architecture #trump

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

Jonathan Emmesedi Dec 27

"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

Jonathan Emmesedi Dec 21

@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

Jonathan Emmesedi Dec 18

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

Infrogmation Dec 18

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

Jonathan Emmesedi Dec 15

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