Max Arthur Cohn papers

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Max Arthur Cohn papers

1928-1978

The papers of Max Arthur Cohn document his career as a painter and printmaker; significantly, pertaining to the WPA Federal Art Project, as well as other art organizations and galleries. Includes:

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SNAC Resource ID: 6718969

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Gottlieb, Harry, 1895-1992

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Painter, printmaker; New York, N.Y. b. 1895; d. 1992. Born in Bucharest, Romania. Member of N.Y. Artists' Union, American Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, and the American Artists Congress. Served as a WPA artist. Pioneer in the development of silk screen process as a fine art form. From the description of Harry Gottlieb papers, 1910-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80440458 ...

O'Connor, Francis V.

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Francis O'Connor (1937- ) is an art historian in New York, N.Y. O'Connor wrote extensively on the New Deal art programs of the Depression and the Roosevelt Administration. In addition to "Art for the Millions" and "Federal Support for the Visual Arts: the New Deal and Now," he also wrote, "The New Deal Art Projects: an Anthology of Memoirs" based on extensive interviews and research of New Deal artists and the genesis and continuity of government sponsored art programs. ...

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...

McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965

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Elizabeth McCausland (1899-1965) was an art critic, writer, lecturer, and exhibition organizer. Taught at Barnard College, New School for Social Research, and Sarah Lawrence College; art critic for Springfield Sunday Union and Republican, late 1920s; author of text for Berenice Abbott's "Changing New York" (1939), "The Life and Work of Edward Lamson Henry, N.A., 1841-1919" (1945), "A. H. Maurer" (1951), "George Inness, An American Landscape Painter" (1946), "Charles W. H...

Cohn, Max Arthur, 1903-1998

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Painter, printmaker; New York, N.Y. From the description of Max Arthur Cohn papers, 1928-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455379 ...

Barr, Norman, 1908-

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Painter. From the description of Norman Barr papers, 1941-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122545526 ...