The US government once employed artists to draw pictures of designs from historical objects. The idea is reimagined by artists today.
a national enterprise that employed a diverse group of people during the Great Depression
When you think about the US West, what images and stories come to mind?
pioneer—was painted by an artist hired by the US government during the Great Depression
The acclaimed Delaware artist first brought his artistic ambitions to life drawing decorative art objects for the Work Progress Administration project.
He came of age during the Great Depression, and struggled to find work to provide
A profound appreciation for the paintings of Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer unites these three people—and many others.
“I suffered from a heavy depression,� he says. “The arts—theater, opera,
IAD was a project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), created during the Depression
The artisans from the tiny town of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, have been making a global impact for generations.
But the Depression started the first exodus. “There used to be a lot of people
The Minnesota artist’s humanist, ecological pottery contains operating instructions for our shared survival.
what the land gives, and banking those gifts for the future. “Coming out of the Depression
€œRedsâ€� Torr had endured grinding poverty during the early years of the Great Depression
Aaron Douglas painted The Judgment Day in 1939, more than a decade after creating the book illustration on which the painting is based. In 1927 Douglas had provided eight strikingly original illustrations for a collection of poems titled God’s Trombones:
a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s and extended until the Great Depression
aerial photography for the army during World War I, Steichen suffered bouts of depression
