American WPA Era Art, New Deal Art Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art

American WPA Era Art

New Deal Art

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This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "American WPA Era Art, New Deal Art." Articles and essays specific to this topic published in TFAO's Resource Library are listed at the beginning of the section. Clicking on titles takes readers directly to these articles and essays. The date at the end of each title is the Resource Library publication date. (left: WPA logo)

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(above: Josephine Joy, Aloes, c. 1935-38, oil on canvas, 30 x 24.1 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1971.447.43. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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(above: Xavier Gonzalez 1898-1993, Music of the Plains (mural study, Kilgore, Texas Post Office), c. 1940, 15 x 17.5 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

(above: David Stone Martin, Electrification, 1940, Tempera on cardboard. Treasury Section of Fine Arts, Fine Arts Collection, General Services Administration)

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(above: Edward Millman, Flop House, 1937, 23 x 29.8 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1971.447.73. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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