Public Works of Art Project.

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Dates:
Active 1934
Active 1940
Active 1933
Active 1934
Active 1934
Active 1935
Active 1934
Active 1941
Active 1934
Active 1964
Active 1933
Active 1936
Active 1933
Active 1938
Active 1933
Active 1939
Active 1933
Active 1941
Active 1929
Active 1973
Active 1933
Active 1978
Active 1934
Active 1943

History notes:

Cecil Jones was the business director of the PWAP.

From the description of Correspondence and related records of Cecil Jones, 1933-1934. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220181044

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

From the description of Correspondence and personal files of Edward P. Rowan, 1934-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220181019

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.

From the description of PWAP Region 15 (Calif.) papers, 1934-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502805

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

From the description of Correspondence and personal files of Edward B. Rowan, 1934-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779476967

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.

From the description of Public Works of Art Project selected administrative and business records, 1933-1934. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220180979

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.

From the description of Public Works of Art Project articles and exhibition catalog, 1933-1934. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122403833

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

From the description of Central office (Washington, D.C.) files and publicity materials, 1933-1934. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220181066

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.

From the description of Records of the Public Works of Art Project in Texas, 1933-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122571380

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Subjects:

  • Art, Modern
  • Art and state
  • Artists
  • Federal aid to public welfare
  • Federal aid to the arts
  • Federal aid to the public welfare
  • New Deal, 1933-1939
  • Painting, American

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  • Texas (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • California--San Francisco (as recorded)

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