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unusual facts about Federal Art Project


Louise Brann

Louise Brann was an American painter who worked in the Federal Art Project during the New Deal.


Evander Childs Educational Campus

In 1938, James Michael Newell, working under the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project, painted eight murals titled The History of Western Civilization at the school.

Leonard D. Jungwirth

During some of that period he also served as a supervisor in the WPA's Federal Art Project, for whom he created several works, notably a statue of Gabriel Richard located at the entrance to the Belle Isle Bridge.

Maxine Albro

She was one of the few female artists commissioned under the New Deal's Federal Art Project, a program launched during the Great Depression that also employed the likes of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Diego Rivera, among other painters who would go on to become famous.

Rincon Center

The interior features the renowned "History of California" mural, composed of 27 watercolor murals painted by the Russian immigrant muralist Anton Refregier, from 1941 to 1948 under the Federal Art Project of the Work Projects Administration.

William Sommer

In 1914 he relocated to Brandywine, Ohio where he worked on several large-scale murals for the Federal Art Project.


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Edgar Yaeger

Yaeger was best known for his contributions to the Michigan Federal Art project and the Works Progress Administration scheme during the Depression era, to which he contributed a number of murals that were displayed in public buildings.

Paul Kelpe

In 1936–1937, Kelpe painted two large abstract murals for Brooklyn's Williamsburg Housing Project after being hired by Burgoyne Diller for the New York City Works Progress Administration Mural Program of the Federal Art Project.

William Abbenseth

Abbenseth credited his work with the Federal Art Project as being an educational, which allowed him to work with and learn from the photographers of Group f/64 and filmmaker Ralph Steiner.