Sentences with phrase «era federal art»

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The Federal - era Willoughby - Baylor House provides a perfect historical setting for an exhibition of highlights from the Chrysler Museum's deep collection of early American art.

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

In Chicago in the early 1970s, we had our own third and best - known generation of alternative spaces (each city can claim its own artist - run history, probably with a fair share of boosterism thrown in), such as ARC, Artemisia (both were feminist galleries formed from West - East Bag, a nationwide network of women artists), and N.A.M.E., with the much - heralded Randolph Street Gallery opening in 1979.7 This is not to mention still - running artist - driven efforts such as the Hyde Park Art Center, founded in 1948, and the South Side Community Art Center, the only surviving Federal Arts Center from the WPA era and the oldest African American art center in the country, famously dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt on opening day in 19Art Center, founded in 1948, and the South Side Community Art Center, the only surviving Federal Arts Center from the WPA era and the oldest African American art center in the country, famously dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt on opening day in 19Art Center, the only surviving Federal Arts Center from the WPA era and the oldest African American art center in the country, famously dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt on opening day in 19art center in the country, famously dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt on opening day in 1940.

Traditionally refers to American school, embodied by Ben Shahn and supported by the Federal Arts Project during the Depression era.

At the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia, «Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper» (June 27 — Oct. 12, 2014) consists of more than 70 watercolors, pastels, etchings, and linoleum and color screenprints produced primarily in the 1930s and 40s, during the era of the Great Depression and the Works Progress Administrations's Federal Arts Project.

Lush images of modern dance pioneers; haunting early cyanotypes of algae (the first photographic works to be produced by a woman); majestic geographical surveys taken along the Union Pacific Railroad, iconic Depression - era images taken under the Farm Security Administration's famed photography program; Berenice Abbott's epic documentation of 1930s New York for the Federal Art Project; stunning 19th century vistas of the Egypt and Syria; scenes and portraits of Ellis Island Immigrants, the Statue of Liberty under construction...