The Federal Art Project (FAP) was the visual arts arm of the Great Depression-era New Deal WPA Federal One program in the United States. The visual arts are art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily Visual in nature such as Painting, Photography The New Deal was the name that United States President Franklin D The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 the Work Projects Administration; WPA) was the largest New Deal agency employing millions of people Federal One (or more properly Federal Project Number One) was the collective name for a group of projects under the Work Projects Administration, a New The United States of America —commonly referred to as the It operated from August 29, 1935 until June 30, 1943. Events 708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708) Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the Usurper Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Reputed to have created more than 200,000 separate works, FAP artists created posters, murals and paintings; some of which stand among the most significant pieces of public art in the country. The term public art properly refers to works of Art in any media that has been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited
FAP's primary goals were to employ out-of-work artists and to provide art for non-federal government buildings: schools, hospitals, libraries and the like. The work was divided into art production, art instruction and art research; the primary output of the art research group was the Index of American Design.
The FAP was one of a short-lived series of Depression-era visual arts programs, which included the Section of Painting and Sculpture and the Public Works of Art Project (both of which, unlike the WPA-operated FAP, were operated by the United States Department of the Treasury). During the Great Depression in the United States, the Section of Painting and Sculpture was a Public art program administered by the Procurement Division The Public Works of Art Project was a program to employ artists as part of the New Deal, during the Great Depression. The United States Department of the Treasury is a Cabinet department and the Treasury of the United States government.
Notables
Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, Leon Bibel, Dorr Bothwell, Eleanor Coen, Werner Drewes, Adolph Gottlieb, Harry Gottlieb, William Gropper, Philip Guston, Donal Hord, Albert Kotin, Jacob Lawrence, Conrad Marca-Relli, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Louis Schanker, Mark Rothko, Harry Shoulberg, William Sommer, Daniel Rhodes, Georgette Seabrooke Powell, Alton Tobey, and Mark Tobey were some of the well-known artists supported by the project. Berenice Abbott ( July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) born Bernice Abbott, was an American Photographer William Baziotes (1912&ndash1963 was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism. Leon Bibel (1913-1995 was an American painter and printmaker during the Great Depression. Dorr Hodgson Bothwell ( May 3, 1902 - September 24, 2000) was an American artist designer educator and world-traveller Eleanor Coen established her art career during the great depression Werner Drewes (1899-1985 was a German-American painter and Printmaker, born in 1899 in Canig, Germany. Adolph Gottlieb ( March 14, 1903 - March 4, 1974) was an American Abstract expressionist painter and sculptor Harry Gottlieb (1895-1993 was a painter screenprinter lithographer and educator was born in Bucharest Romania. William Victor Gropper ( December 3, 1897 – January 6, 1977) aka Samuel Gropper, was a U Philip Guston ( June 27, 1913 &ndash June 7, 1980) was a notable painter and Printmaker in the New York School Donal Hord (1902 – 1966 an American sculptor was born Donald Horr in Prentice Wisconsin on February 26 1902 Albert Kotin (1907&ndash1980 belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had Jacob Lawrence ( September 7, 1917 - June 9, 2000) was an African American painter; he was married to fellow artist Conrad Marca-Relli (born Corrado Marcarelli June 5, 1913 &ndash August 29, 2000) belonged to the early generation of New York School Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28 1912 &ndash August 11 1956 was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement Lee Krasner ( October 27, 1908 — June 19, 1984) was an influential abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th Louis Schanker (1903-1981 was an American Abstract artist He quit school as a teenager and joined the Circus, working in the wheat fields of the Great Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz ( Latvian: Marks Rotko; September 25, 1903 &ndash February 25, 1970 Harry Shoulberg (1903 &ndash 1995 was an American Expressionist painter. William Sommer (1867 – 1949 was an American Modernist painter Daniel Rhodes (May 8 1911 – July 23 1989 was an American Ceramic artist Sculptor, Author and educator Alton Stanley Tobey ( 5 November 1914 - 4 January 2005) the American artist was a painter, Historical artist Mark George Tobey ( December 11, 1890 &ndash April 24, 1976) was an American abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning and Santiago Martínez Delgado were also employed by the Project but had to leave as they were not American citizens at the time. Willem de Kooning (April 24 1904 – March 19 1997 was an Abstract expressionist painter born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands Santiago Martínez Delgado (1906 - 1954 was a Colombian painter sculptor Art historian and writer
See also
External links
- wpamurals.com: W.P.A. New Deal Art During the Great Depression - links to each state, with examples of WPA art in each
- "Art Within Reach" - Federal Art Project Community Art Centers
- Mark K. Christ & Sandra Taylor Smith, Arkansas Post Offices and the Treasury Department's Section Art Program, 1938-1942. Little Rock, Arkansas Historic Preservation Program.
- Iowa-born WPA Artist Robert Tabor
- Louis Schanker and the WPA in New York
- By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
- A collection of 240 WPA Posters
- Federal Art Project Photographic Division collection at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
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