Sentences with phrase «wpa during the depression»

Born into a poor family in Wilkes - Barre, Pennsylvania, Kline was educated in a school for fatherless boys — his father having committed suicide in 1917 — and went on to study painting in Boston and then in London.He returned to the States after marrying, made «jazz murals» and found employment as a graphic artist for the WPA during the Depression, settling in downtown New York City in 1939, quite down on his luck.

She studied at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League of New York, and worked as an artist for the WPA during the Depression.

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Many of the first generation of Absract Expressionists such as William Baziotes, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, David Smith, and Jack Tworkov were employed in the government - funded Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Depression in the mid-1930s.

He studied art at the National Academy of Design and at City College, graduating in 1935, and joined the star - studded roster of the WPA artists, which helped him keep a studio going in Chelsea during the decade - long Depression.

The Art Center had begun as a school established by Augusta Savage but was taken over by the WPA and turned into one of its neighborhood art centers during the Depression.

Like many American artists during the Depression, Roszak also found regular work through the Federal Art Project: he taught at the Design Laboratory, a tuition - free, experimental design school opened in 1935 under the aegis of the WPA.

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 administration.

In September 1935, at 22 years of age, he moved to New York where he worked as an artist in the WPA program during the Great Depression.

It began with the WPA during the Great Depression, which brought many artists together, producing radical artists» magazines such as Art Front; and it resulted in the Eighth Street Club, which was an informal forum that established visual artists as members of the intelligentsia.