Collection of correspondence concerning the sculpture, "Arrowed Death," 1938-1939.

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Collection of correspondence concerning the sculpture, "Arrowed Death," 1938-1939.

The collection consists of letters and memorandum to the National Park Service and the New Mexico Cuarto Centennial Commission that solicit funding for the bronze casting of the piece, "Arrowed Death," by John Terkin and placing the bronze statue in the patio at Bandelier. Photocopies of six photographs accompany the letters. Whether or not the piece was ever cast in bronze and placed in Bandelier is not answered in the correspondence.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7416435

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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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...

Terkin, John.

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