Belisario Contreras Photograph Collection

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Belisario Contreras Photograph Collection

1930-1942

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Photographs concerning government-sponsored art during the Depression era that were supported by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) and related organizations. Focuses on works of art, artists, art centers (in locations across the U.S., including New Mexico), art education, governmental officials and politicians involved in these public art projects. Murals are shown in various stages of production. Building projects, such as Memorial Tower in San Francisco and Timberline Lodge (a crafts center in Oregon), and easel paintings are included. Also in the collection, a group photo of Edward Bruce and the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) regional directors, taken in Washington, D.C. This collection contains the works of many artists. Only a few such as Jacob Baker, Patrocinio Barela, Lucienne Bloch, Edward Bruce, Julian Martinez, Tony Martinez, John Gaw Meem, and Jesse L. Nussbaum have been indexed by name in this record.

1400 items (6 boxes) : 1400 photographic prints

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SNAC Resource ID: 6404729

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Barela, Patrocinio

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Nussbaum, Jesse L.

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Hopkins, Harry L.

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United States. Work Projects Administration

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The Works Progress Administration was involved in various projects including the compilation of sources on American territories. The card catalogs for these were prepared at the Library of Congress and are now in the National Archives. From the description of Classified Alaska Bibliography, 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42927718 Works Progress Administration (later called Work Projects Administration) began operations in San Joaquin County, Calif., July 1935. County a...

Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946

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Harry Lloyd Hopkins (1890-1946) was born in Sioux City, Iowa. After graduation from Grinnell College in 1912, he became a social worker in New York City with the Christadora Settlement House and the Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor (AICP). He was Executive Secretary of the New York Board of Child Welfare from 1915 to 1917 and worked for the American Red Cross in New Orleans and Atlanta from 1917 to 1921, when he rejoined the AICP in New York as Assistant Director. He headed t...

Barela, Patrocipio, 1908-1964

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Nussbaum, Jesse L. (Jesse Logan)

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Meem, John Gaw, 1894-1983

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The original objective of the interview was a survey of the early development of the Santa Fe art colony and the personalities who made it famous. The interviewer is unidentified. Interviewees include renowned architect, John Gaw Meem; Will Shuster, painter and founder of Los Cinco Pintores, Santa Fe's first modernist art group; and Karl Larsson, Swedish immigrant, silversmith, and painter-teacher. From the description of Oral history interview with John Gaw Meem, Will Shuster, and K...

Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960

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Writer, art director. From the description of Reminiscences of Holger Cahill : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309729309 Art administrator; New York, N.Y. National director of Federal Art Project, administered under Federal Project No. 1 of the Works Progress Administration (later the Work Projects Administration). The FAP provided work to unemployed artists. Cahill was the director throughout its existence. ...

Contreras, Belisario R., 1916-

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Between 1933 and 1942 the Roosevelt administration developed a number of different federal art programs. The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), initiated by Edward Bruce, was administered by the Treasury Department and financed by relief funds from the Civil Works Administration (CWA). PWAP was an emergency measure that functioned only from December 1933 to January 1934. A second program, the Section of Painting and Sculpture, also established by Bruce within the Treasury Department, operated f...

Index of Amerian Design

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