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Into the world there came a soul called Ida 1927-1930. 56 1/4 x 47 inches. "There is no third dimension in plain reality. All that we perceive is a world of surfaces." Ivan Albright, 1932 Ivan Albright The Farmer's Kitchen 1934 oil on canvas 36 x 30 1/8 in. LILY FUREDI: SUBWAY, 1934 (made for the Dept of the Interior), oil/canvas, 39 x 48" THE NEW DEAL AND ART: WPA (Work Progress Admin.) PWAP (Public Works of Art Project) FAP (Federal Arts Project) TREASURY SECTION OF FINE ARTS "coax the soul of America back to life" (Gutzon Borglum) the artist as a citizen-artist who serves the community AMERICAN ART IN THE 1930S This image and the text corresponding to this image may only be used for noncommercial, educational, and scholarly purposes. ImagePage 1 of 8 Tanning and Sage.prs

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Page 1: FAP (Federal Arts Project) TREASURY SECTION OF FINE ARTS ... and art/New... · Dorothea Tanning: A Little Night Music (Eine Kleine Nacht Musik), 1944, oil/canvas, 16 x 24" Peter Blume:

Into the world there came a soul called

Ida

1927-1930.

56 1/4 x 47 inches.

"There is no third dimension in plain reality. All that we perceive

is a world of surfaces."Ivan Albright, 1932

Ivan Albright

The Farmer's Kitchen

1934

oil on canvas

36 x 30 1/8 in.

LILY FUREDI: SUBWAY, 1934 (made for the Dept of the Interior), oil/canvas, 39 x 48"

THE NEW DEAL AND ART:

WPA (Work Progress Admin.) PWAP (Public Works of Art Project)

FAP (Federal Arts Project)

TREASURY SECTION OF FINE ARTS

"coax the soul of America back to life" (Gutzon Borglum)

the artist as a citizen-artist who serves the community

AMERICAN ART IN THE 1930S

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Philip Evergood: American Tragedy, 1937, 29 x 39"The Sweatshop

George Biddle

Society freed through Justice (the

Tenement), 1936

(detail from larger fresco)

Julia Eckel, Radio Broadcast, 1934 (made for the Dept of Labor), 40 x 55", oil/canvas

Poor Room -- there is no time, no end, no yesterday, no

tomorrow, only the forever and forever and forever without

end

1941-1943/1948-1955/1957-1962

oil/canvas

48x37"

Woman

1928

33 x 22"

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Mitchell Siporin: The Refugees, 1939 (30 x 36")

Seymour Fogel, Industrial Life, tempera study, Health and Human Services Building, Wash., D.C.

Tom Lea: Pass of the North (detail from the San Antonio court house fresco), 1937

Tom Lea, Stampede, 1940, Post Office in Odessa, TX

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A Sign of the Times -- mended stockings --

stenographer

1934

Dorothea Lange

White Angel Bread-line

1933.

Photography and the Farm Security Administration

Julius WoeltzDisk Harrow, 1941

for the post office in Amarillo TX

Louise Ronnebeck: The Fertile Land Remembers (1930s), Casper WY post office (originally made for Worland WY)

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Relief Blues, 1938

O. Louis Guglielmi

Terror in Brooklyn

1941.

34 x 30 inches.

American Surrealism

A drought refugee living in a camp

February and March 1937

Six tenant farmers -- without farms, 1937

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Children's Games, 1942Interior, 1953

oil on canvas, 18 x 15 in

Dorothea Tanning: A Little Night Music (Eine Kleine Nacht Musik), 1944, oil/canvas, 16 x 24"

Peter Blume: The Eternal City, 1932-37

Walter Quirt: Mutation, 1940.oil/canvas, 30 x 40 inches.

Charles Burchfield

House of mystery

1924.

29 1/2 x 24 1/2; tempera, oil, glazes

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Lors Feitelson, Genesis, first version24 x 30 in., oil/canvas

Secret Voyage of a Spark, 194426.4x34.9cm

No passing, 1954.51 1/4 x 38 inches.

The unicorns came down to the sea, 1948.

36 x 28 in.

Kay Sage, Danger, Construction Ahead1940, Oil on canvas, 111.8 x 157.5 cm (44 x 62 in.)

Project for a Painting

1979

oil on canvas

57 1/2x 44 3/4'

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The Shell, 1950-1Microcosm and Macrocosm

1937, oil on masonite, 37 x 19"

Helen Lundeberg

Double Portrait of the Artist in Time

1935

oil on fiberboard

47 3/4 x 40 in. (121.3 x 101.6 cm.)

Genesis, #2

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