Peter Van Valkenburgh Federal Art Project portraits of eminent Americans [graphic]. 1938-1939.

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Peter Van Valkenburgh Federal Art Project portraits of eminent Americans [graphic]. 1938-1939.

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Lithographic reproductions of pencil drawings depicting various well-known figures from United States history, many of them associated with California: John Burroughs, Kit Carson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Keith, James King, John LeConte, John Marsh (pioneer), Joaquin Miller, John Muir, Boardman Robinson, Joseph B. Strauss, James D. Phelan, Joseph A. Stanton (artist), John Swett, Edward Robeson Taylor, Henry David Thoreau, Douglas Tilden, Mark Twain, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Daniel Webster. One European figure is also depicted: Marie Curie. Reproductions of the subjects' signatures appear in most prints.

1 folder (21 prints) : lithograph, one color ; 49 x 32 cm

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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...

Van Valkenburgh, Peter.

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Peter Van Valkenburgh was born in Greenbush, Wisconsin in 1870. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the American Academy of Art. In 1915 he moved to California, eventually locating in Piedmont, where he would live for the remainder of his life. In the 1930s he was commissioned by the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration to execute portraits of eminent persons. Peter Van Valkenburgh died in 1955. From the description of Peter Van Valkenburgh Federal Art ...