Collection of Correspondence concerning the Sculpture, "Arrowed Death" 1938-1939
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Terkin, John
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John Terkin was born in New York City, educated at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, New York School of Fine and Industrial Arts, and studied in Europe for several years. He came to New Mexico in the late 1930s under the auspices of the WPA Federal Art Project. Terkin originally worked in Chaves County where he produced busts of local pioneers. The four works are of John Chisum, Joseph C. Lea, John J. Hagerman, and Amelia Bolton Church. All are exhibited at the Chaves County Histo...
Federal Art Project
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The FAP projects included a broad range of events and activities which generated the various publications and materials found in the central files of the general subject series. ART FOR THE MILLIONS was a publication project about the accomplishments of the FAP consisting of a series of articles by Project workers. In addition to creating work for artists, the FAP sought to increase art appreciation as well as art sales among the general public. In doing so it devised a plan which created Nation...
