Sketchbooks.

ArchivalResource

Sketchbooks.

There are sketches of people, animals and some buildings. Most, or all, were completed while in Europe.

1 microfilm reel.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6763867

Winterthur Library

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Free, Karl R., 1903-1947.

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Free was an American painter, one of many working for the WPA. He was also curator of prints at the Whitney Museum. From the description of Sketchbooks. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122559158 Painter; New York City. Studied with Joseph Pennell, Boardman Robinson and Kenneth Hayes Miller. WPA artist. From the description of Karl R. Free sketchbooks, [ca. 1920-1940]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122515361 ...