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‘Work of Art’: SLAM dives into artists and hardscrabble of the Great Depression
The art collected within the museum are all pieces created during the Great Depression of the 1930s and into World War II. Under the umbrella of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal ...
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What Was the Great Depression? Definition, Causes & Lessons Learned
Known as the Great Depression, this economic crisis ... jobs through new federal public works programs such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA). He declared a four-day “bank holiday ...
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Russell Theodore Limbach
was a key figure for art in the Works Progress Administration during the years of the Great Depression. Limbach was one of two Cleveland printmakers commissioned by the Public Works of Art Project in ...
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Gwendolyn Knight
She studied at Howard University for 2 years in the 1930s before having to drop out due to the Great Depression. In 1934, Knight met Jacob Lawrence, a painter whom she would marry while working on a ...
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The Works Progress Administration
The WPA supported tens of thousands of artists, by funding creation of 2,566 murals and 17,744 pieces of sculpture that decorate public buildings nationwide. The federal art, theater ...