Wilbur D. Peat papers
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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...
Treasury Relief Art Project.
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The Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP) was established in 1935 under the Department of the Treasury with special funds allocated from the Works Progress Administration (later the Work Projects Administration) to decorate those federal buildings not funded by the Section of Fine Arts and as a relief agency for unemployed, but highly competent artists. The Chief of TRAP was Olin Dows, Forbes Watson was Director, and Cecil H. Jones Assistant Chief, later replacing Dows. From the descrip...
Peat, Wilbur David, 1898-1966
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In 1956 the Indiana Historical Bureau conducted a survey of houses built in Indiana prior to 1860. Wilbur D. Peat was asked to use the survey results as a basis for a book on Indiana architecture. At the time he was director of the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and had published other works concerning art and architecture in Indiana. Wilbur D. Peat was the director of the Herron Institute from 1929 until his retirement in 1966. Previously, he had been director of the Akron Art Instit...
Milliken, William Mathewson, 1889-1978
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Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1930-1958). From the description of Papers, ca. 1885-1978. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 18242561 William Milliken (1889-1978) was a museum director from Cleveland, Ohio. He was the director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1930-1958. From the description of Oral history interview with William Milliken, 1974 Dec. 27-1976 Mar. 13 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id:...
