1934: A New Deal for Artists a new look at the art from the 1934 Public Works of Art Program

摘要

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated in March of 1933, he wasted no time in pushing forward with his promised New Deal programs. By the end of the year, the US Treasury Department had appointed artist and lobbyist Edward Bruce administrator of the first federally supported arts program, the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the predecessor of the Federal Art Project, which was started in 1935 as part of the Works Progress Administration. Bruce was tasked with organizing the project, which would serve two purposes: providing paying work for thousands of unemployed artists and providing public works of art accessible to the general citizenry.