Public Works of Art Project.

Cecil Jones was the business director of the PWAP.

Rowan was the assistant technical director of the PWAP. He worked closely with Edward Bruce, the director of the PWAP.

Federally funded art project of the Treasury Department initiated in order to provide jobs for unemployed artists during the Depression.

Under the PWAP the country was divided into 16 regions each of which had its own director who answered to the national director in Washington, D.C. The PWAP was succeeded by the Section of Painting and Sculpture, which subsequently became the Section of Fine Arts.

Rowan was the assistant technical director of the PWAP. He worked closely with Edward Bruce, the director of the PWAP.

The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the New Deal art programs, was established under the Department of the Treasury in December 1933 to assist unemployed artists by enabling them to work on the decoration of non-federal public buildings. Although it lasted only until the following summer, it engaged nearly 4,000 artists in all parts of the country and served as an important precedent for subsequent federal art programs, such as the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Later art projects administered under the Department of the Treasury were the Section of Fine Arts, originally the Section of Painting and Sculpture, and the Treasury Relief Art Project, both of which served to employ artists to decorate federal buildings across the United States.

PWAP, the first of the New Deal art programs, was established under the Department of the Treasury in December 1933 to assist unemployed artists by enabling them to work on the decoration of non-federal public buildings. Although it lasted only until the following summer, it engaged nearly 4,000 artists in all parts of the country and served as an important precedent for subsequent federal art programs, such as the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Edward Bruce was the director of PWAP and Forbes Watson was the advisor.

Edward Bruce was a lawyer, businessman, painter, and government administrator. Was director of the PWAP and later of the Section of Fine Arts.

Federally funded art programs of the Depression.

Public Works of Art Project fell under the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department and subsequently became the Section of Fine Arts.