Sentences with phrase «administration federal art»

In 1936 he worked for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project and became one of the founding members of the American Abstract Artists group.

He was the director of the Southern California division of the Works Project Administration Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1943, [12] and personally completed several major civic art projects, including the murals in Santa Monica City Hall.

Later, after the war, he shared a studio and a sensibility with Willem de Kooning (both artists had worked together on the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project in the late 1930s).

In 1933, Arshile Gorky became one of the first artists employed by the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project.

From 1936 to 1940, he lived in New York and worked in the easel division of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project.

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Thanks to pockets of investment for things like a new $ 1.2 billion medical center that will spearhead bio-tech research, and a staggering $ 70 billion in federal aid that has gone to rebuilding infrastructure — including a $ 15 billion state of the art levee system — Landrieu says, the city has created 9,100 new jobs since his administration took over in 2010.

The budget eviscerates Medicaid and other social safety net programs, eliminates federal arts support and slashes environmental programs that are unpopular with the administration and its supporters.

The school was constructed as a junior high school for grades 7 to 9 during the 1930s with federal Work Projects Administration funds, and its design shows period Art Deco - influences.

The state currently must follow federal law that requires the administration of English language arts and math standardized exams annually in grades three through eight and once in high school.

All of us at the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) are proud to partner with state, local and tribal governments to encourage the use of state - of - the - art transportation innovations under FHWA's «Every Day Counts» (EDC) initiative.

The work is part of the Art in Architecture program, developed under the Kennedy administration, which sets aside 0.5 percent of the estimated cost of federal construction projects for public aArt in Architecture program, developed under the Kennedy administration, which sets aside 0.5 percent of the estimated cost of federal construction projects for public artart.

Both Krasner (1908 - 1984) and Lewis (1909 - 1979) embraced abstraction in the 1940s, after early flirtations with Social Realism: They both had been involved in the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (and may even have met through that organization), and Lewis had been a member of the Harlem artists» group 306 (which included the socially minded artists Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence.)

Lee worked as mural painter for the Public Works of Art Project, New York, 1934; Temporary Emergency Relief Administration, New York, 1934 - 35; Works Project Administration (W.P.A.) Federal Arts Project, New York, 1934; and the Federal Arts Project, Mural Division, 1938 - 42.

In an excerpt from Phaidon's Contemporary Artist series book Hans Haacke, we revisit a 2004 conversation between the godfather of institutional critique and Molly Nesbit for insight into how artists dealt with federal de-funding of the arts during the last Republican administration, the politicizing effects of corporate sponsorship in museums, and how art can become both a tool or weapon.

The work was commissioned by the United States General Services Administration Arts - in - Architecture program for the Foley Federal Plaza.

She worked in the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project during the New Deal, beginning in 1936 and producing over 30 prints for the WPA.

From 1935 to 1943, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project gave them, and thousands of other artists nationwide, a living wage to do the work for which they were trained.

Mintz was a registered Illinois artist for the Works Progress Administration WPA Federal Art Project during the 1930s.

He instituted a darkroom, education, and exhibition program at the YMCA, and in 1938 was hired as a «creative photographer» for the Oregon Art Project, a division of the federal government's Works Progress Administration.

The paintings he designed — influenced by the work of Mexican muralists, jazz music, and the prevailing social realism of the 1930s — were approved by the Federal Art Project but rejected by the hospital's administration for what they saw as an excess of subject matter relating to African Americans.

His true breakthrough was in the year of 1935 when Willem was chosen to be the official artist of the federal art project for the WPA (Works Progress Administration) that needed him to paint a number of murals and other similar works.

Between 1933 - 39, he completed several government commissioned murals under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Program (PWAP), the Federal Art Project (FAP), and the Works Progress Administration (WAP).

that catalogs all of the art in the federal U.S. General Services Administration's Fine Arts Collection.

He worked in the graphics division of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Arts Project, and in 1939 collaborated with his brother Moses on two murals for the post office in Kinsessing, Pennsylvania.

Philip Guston was a painter and printmaker who began as a social realist painter, associated with the mural movement involving artists such as Diego Rivera and working for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Arts Project in New York City during the 1930s.

She has completed public commissions for the Federal Reserve Bank and The General Services Administration, and her work for civic arts projects earned her an American Institute of Architects Artist Award.

In 1935, he joined the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration.

Federal Art Projects, Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) 1923 - 34; Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project (WPA / FAP) 1935 - 1940; Military Service WW II 1941 - 1945: US Army Engineering School.

In 1934 Giorgio Cavallon was employed in the Works Progress Administration / Federal Art Project (WPA / FAP) Easel & Mural Division as Arshile Gorky's assistant.

Prior to the war, many of them participated in the Federal Art Project, (WPA) Works Progress Administration, which provided stipends during the depression in the Roosevelt aAdministration, which provided stipends during the depression in the Roosevelt administrationadministration.

U.S. General Services Administration Art in Architecture Program, public art commissionto create a silkscreened mural for the Interior Memorialization of the African Burial Ground, Federal Office Building lobby, 290 Broadway, New YoArt in Architecture Program, public art commissionto create a silkscreened mural for the Interior Memorialization of the African Burial Ground, Federal Office Building lobby, 290 Broadway, New Yoart commissionto create a silkscreened mural for the Interior Memorialization of the African Burial Ground, Federal Office Building lobby, 290 Broadway, New York.

Flamingo is the first work of art commissioned by the General Services Administration (GSA) under the new federal program wherein 0.5 percent of the budget for new construction goes toward commissioning art.

The Works Progress Administration - Federal Art Project Collection (WPA - FAP) contains approximately 300 paintings, prints, and sculpture from the Great Depression era.

This campaign - based on the style of social realism championed by Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969)- was commissioned by the Federal Arts Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

From 1936 to 1942, Lundeberg was employed by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, for which she produced lithographs, easel paintings, and murals in the Los Angeles area.

As a young artist, he would have an unbeatable opportunity in 1935, when he became an artist for the federal art project for the WPA (Works Progress Administration), through which he created a number of murals and other works.

Because racial discrimination barred African Americans from many opportunities, they often first gained access to printmaking instruction and facilities in art centers sponsored by the Works Progress Administration / Federal Arts Project, which from 1935 to 1943 provided jobs for thousands of unemployed artists.

In 1937, along with Jackson Pollock and Louise Nevelson, he was employed by the Federal Art Project, one of the branches of the Works Progress Administration created during the Great Depression which would operate until 1941.

Educated at the Art Institute of Chicago, he was employed in the late 1930s by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Program and was often described as one of the last living African American artists who participated in the WPA.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS Bailey - Boushay House, AIDS Housing of Washington, Seattle, WA Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, OR Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA City of Tacoma, Department of Cultural Resources, WA Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Davis Wright Tremaine Attorneys, Seattle, WA Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA Hillis Clark Martin and Peterson Attorneys, Seattle, WA Honolulu Museum of Art, Hononlulu, HI Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Neuberger and Berman, New York, NY New York Public Library, New York, NY Pacific First Federal Savings Bank, Seattle, WA Perkins Coie, Seattle, WA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Portland Art Museum, Gilkey Print Center, Portland, OR SAFECO Corporation, Seattle, WA Saintsbury Winery, Napa, CA Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Arts Commission, Surrogate Hostess, Seattle, WA Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA Washington State University, Pullman, WA Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA

Swing Landscape [fig. 1][fig. 1] Stuart Davis, Swing Landscape, 1938, oil on canvas, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ezkanazi Museum of Art was the first of two commissions that Stuart Davis received from the Mural Division of the Federal Art Project (FAP), an agency of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), to make large - scale paintings for specific sites in New York.

In addition, the Museum is the largest repository of works on paper created under the auspices of the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and possesses over 100 vintage prints by the photographer Berenice Abbott as well as important photographs by Edward Steichen and Edward Weston.

In 1934, Cavallon was employed in the Works Progress Administration / Federal Art Project (WPA / FAP) Easel & Mural Division as Arshile Gorky's assistant.

After traveling to Europe in 1925 and 1928, he worked on the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration and began teaching at the Art Students League in 1933.

In October 1935, De Kooning began to work on the WPA (Works Progress Administration) Federal Art Project, and he won the Logan Medal of the arts while working together with Colombian Santiago Martínez Delgado.

De Kooning joined the Artists Union in 1934, and in 1935 was employed in the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, for which he designed a number of murals including some for the Williamsburg Federal Housing Project in Brooklyn.

In the 1930s, she worked under the auspices of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, which allowed her and her colleagues an important opportunity to earn a salary for making and teaching aArt Project of the Works Progress Administration, which allowed her and her colleagues an important opportunity to earn a salary for making and teaching artart.

In 1981, Serra's 120 - foot - long and 12 - foot high Titled Arc (1981, destroyed), commissioned by the Arts - in - Architecture program of the U.S. General Services Administration and installed in Federal Plaza, New York City, incited a national controversy and a lingering and fiery discussion was sustained throughout the 1980s and 90s regarding public art.

He joined the Federal Art Project of the Work Projects Administration, executing murals for the 1939 World's Fair and for the Queensbridge Housing Project on Long Island.

During his time in New York, both as a student at ASL and as a participant in the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, Smith developed friendships with many artists, including his future wife Dorothy Dehner, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Stuart Davis, Milton Avery, Arshile Gorky, and perhaps most importantly for his artistic development, John Graham.