When we think of the era, we think of the paintings, prints, murals, and photographs created under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and of the posters, propaganda, and other ...

where she was commissioned to paint several murals, especially through the government's WPA program. During WW II she was an artist war correspondent and created works for the Army Medical Corps.

He had designed posters for the IWW, contributed graphics to The Masses, slipped rebellious slogans into his WPA murals, and served as an official of the International Workers Order insurance society.

In 1934, Knight met Jacob Lawrence, a painter whom she would marry while working on a WPA mural project. The pair were invited by Josef Albers to teach at Black Mountain College. She later taught at ...

Where to find WPA murals in Missouri post offices If you love 20th-century history, murals, and need to send a few packages or postcards, a list of WPA murals in Missouri post offices can be found ...

Bring in books, posters, postcards with reproductions of ... Many of the artists who were students of Hofmann’s worked on the WPA murals before they came to study with Hofmann.

Bring in books, posters, postcards with reproductions of ... Many of the artists who were students of Hofmann’s worked on the WPA murals before they came to study with Hofmann.

Previously destined to be painted over, then simply covered up, the WPA frescoes have been at the centre of debates about US history, education and representation for four years ...

The 16-by-9-foot mural was designed to look like a collage of 16 posters plastered up with wheat paste, Polyak says. The posters are in Polyak’s signature style, with bright colors, bold fonts ...

Born on December 17, 1904 in New York, NY, he studied at the Art Students League in 1928 and thereafter worked in field commercial illustration, eventually receiving commissions in 1933 from the New ...

These include designs for wall-sized murals, posters which won national competitions in support of the war effort. An avid photographer, there are many black and white photographs detailing every day ...