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WPA Federal Art Project Justice of the Pains: The Movement Westward, mural by John Steuart Curry, 1936; in the U.S. Department of Justice Building (Robert F. Kennedy Building), Washington, D.C. Philip Guston
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WPA Federal Art Project Michigan artist Alfred Castagne sketching WPA construction workers, 1939. (Image Number: 69-AG-410)

WPA Federal Art Project

United States history
Also known as: WPA/FAP, Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project(Show More)
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WPA Federal Art Project, first major attempt at government patronage of the visual arts in the United States and the most extensive and influential of the visual arts projects conceived during the Depression of the 1930s by the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is often confused with the Department of the Treasury art programs (Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture, Public Works of Art Project, and Treasury Relief Art Project), but, unlike the...

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