PWAP Region 15 (Calif.) records
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Public Works of Art Project.
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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 a...
United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts.
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Established 1934 under the Treasury Department as the Section of Painting and Sculpture. Name changed to Section of Fine Arts in 1938. In 1939, the Federal Works Agency was established and set up the Public Buildings Administration, which combined the Treasury Department's Public Buildings Branch and the Branch of Public Buildings of the National Park Service. The Section's function was to decorate new federal buildings. Unlike the other New Deal art agencies, it was not a relief project, but aw...
McChesney, Mary Fuller
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Mary Fuller McChesney, sculptor and art historian of San Francisco and Petaluma, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Mary Fuller McChesney, 1994 Sept. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77979777 McChesney, also known as Mary Fuller, is an art historian, writer, and sculptor. Her book, A Period of Exploration, San Francisco, 1945-1950, was published in 1973 in conjunction with the accompanying exhibition at the Oakland Museum. From the descr...
Strong, Ray, 1905-
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Painter, mural painter; San Francisco, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Ray Strong, 1993 Sept. 14 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78470398 Strong, Ray, 1905, Painter, mural painter of San Francisco, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Ray Strong, 1993 Sept. 14 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646400276 Painter, mural painter; San Francisco, Calif.; b. 1905. Fr...
Bruce, Edward, 1879-1943
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Painter, lawyer, businessman, and art director; Washington, D.C. b. 1879, Dover Plains, N.Y.; d. 1943, Washington, D.C. Practiced law in N.Y. and Manila, Philippines; president of Pacific Development Corporation of California; lived and painted in Anticoli Carrado, Italy; director of the Treasury Dept.'s Section of Fine Arts. From the description of Edward Bruce papers, 1902-1960 (bulk 1932-1942). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80468367 ...
