Sentences with phrase «easel division»

Works in easel division of WPA Federal Art Project (through 1941).

From her foundations as an artist of social commitment engaged in the government - sponsored Public Works of Art Project and Works Progress Administration Easel Division in...

By the mid-1930s, he joined the WPA Easel Division.

From her foundations as an artist of social commitment engaged in the government - sponsored Public Works of Art Project and Works Progress Administration Easel Division in the 1930s, Neel was always interested in social engagement.

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

He attended Columbia University, the American Artists School, and the National Academy of Design, after which, from 1936 — 40, he became one of the few abstract painters to work for the easel division of the WPA Federal Art Project.

Upon finishing college he was accredited as a painter by Burgoyne Diller, which allowed him to work from 1936 until 1940 for the WPA Federal Art Project, easel division.

Tworkov was working in the Easel Division and Matter, having studied under artists Maurice Sterne, Alexander Archipenko and the prominent art teacher and Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann, had received a stipend from the WPA to work as the assistant and translator for Fernand Leger.

He joined the Easel Division of the Federal Art Project (1936 - 1937) and was a member of the Artists» Union.

That same year, Motley joined the easel division of the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), which was later absorbed into the Federal Art Project of the WPA.

To support his family, Stone worked for the easel division of the WPA, painting from his home and creating murals for public buildings throughout the United States.

Thanks to Burgoyne Diller, the abstract painter, he worked for the Federal Arts Project (easel division) of the WPA right out of college in 1936.

In the 1930s, the artist worked on the easel division of the WPA Federal Art Project and also made drawings for The New Masses journal.

During the previous decade, Tworkov had joined the Treasury Department's Public Works of Art Project and later the easel division of the Federal Art Project.

Employed by the Easel Division of the WPA in New York in 1936, Rothko later held numerous teaching positions at institutions including the California School of Fine Arts, Brooklyn College and the University of California at Berkeley.

After brief enrollment in the Easel division he entered the Mural division, designing murals for the United States Passport Office in Rockefeller Center, the radio station WNYC, and the Science and Health Building at the 1939 World's Fair in New York.

He returned to New York in 1933 and painted urban scenes while working for the easel division of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project.

In 1934, during the Great Depression, Tworkov joined the Easel Division of the Works Progress Administration, where he befriended artists such as Willem de Kooning (the two shared neighboring studios from 1948 — 1955), Franz Kline, and Mark Rothko.

In 1938, with help from Savage, Lawrence joined the easel division of the WPA, submitting paintings to them at regular intervals.

Begins working on the U.S. Treasury Department Federal Art Project of the WPA (Easel Division).

He found work with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) as an art teacher at the Queens Museum, and then joined the easel division of the WPA's Federal Art Project 1938.