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The Federal Art Project (FAP) was the visual arts arm of the Great Depression-era New Deal Works Progress Administration Federal One program in the United States. It operated from August 29, 1935, until June 30, 1943. Reputed to have created more than 200,000 separate works, FAP artists created posters, murals and paintings. Some works still stand among the most-significant pieces of public art in the country.^[1]

The program made no distinction between representational and nonrepresentational art. Abstraction had not yet gained favor in the 1930s and 1940s and, thus, was virtually unsalable. As a result, the program supported such iconic artists as Jackson Pollock before their work could earn them income.^[2]

The FAP's primary goals were to employ out-of-work artists and to provide art for non-federal government buildings: schools, hospitals, libraries, etc. The work was divided into art production, art instruction and art research. The primary output of the art-research group was the Index of American Design, a mammoth and comprehensive study of American material culture.

The FAP was one of a short-lived series of Depression-era visual-arts programs, which included the Section of Painting and Sculpture and the Public Works of Art Project (both of which, unlike the WPA-operated FAP, were operated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury).

Notable artists

Some of the well-known artists supported by the project with Wikipedia articles follow. (A full list is also available.)

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Berenice Abbott
William Abbenseth
Maxine Albro
Lee Allen
Charles Alston
William Baziotes
Romare Bearden
Thomas Hart Benton
Aaron Berkman
Leon Bibel
Samuel Bookatz
Dorr Bothwell
Flávio Cabral
Eleanor Coen
Francis Criss
Rinaldo Cuneo
John Steuart Curry - (His murals were funded by the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture (later known as The Section of Fine Arts) and not the WPA)
Stuart Davis
Burgoyne Diller

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"Wild Life: The National Parks Preserve All Life.", New York City Federal Art Project, WPA, 1940

Willem de Kooning and Santiago Martínez Delgado were also employed by the FAP temporarily but were unable to stay because they were not U.S. citizens at the time.

Administrators

Holger Cahill, National Director
Audrey McMahon, Director of the New York Region (New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia)
Esther Hepler Inglesby, supervisor of projects in Camden, New Jersey. ^[3]

References

^ Kalfatovic, Martin R.;The New Deal fine arts projects (Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1994) ISBN 0-8108-2749-2
^ Atkins, Robert (1993). ArtSpoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1848-1944. Abbeville Press. ISBN 978-1558593886.
^ the view from her office in Camden.

External links

[1] Kalfatovic, Martin R.;The New Deal fine arts projects (Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1994) ISBN 0-8108-2749-2

[2] Atkins, Robert (1993). ArtSpoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1848-1944. Abbeville Press. ISBN 978-1558593886.

[3] the view from her office in Camden.

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 *Exhibition: [http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2009/1934/ "1934: A New Deal for Artists"]. - [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]].
-*[http://collections.mcny.org/mcny/CS.aspx?VP3=LoginRegistration_VPage#/CMS3&VF=MNY_3_VForm Photographs by Federal Art Project photographers from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York]
+*[http://collections.mcny.org/MCNY/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult_VPage&VBID=24UP1GTRUDPU&SMLS=1&RW=1202&RH=743 Photographs by Federal Art Project photographers from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York]
 *[http://www.wpamurals.com/ wpamurals.com: W.P.A. New Deal Art During the Great Depression] - links to each state, with examples of WPA art in each
 *[http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5100/ "Art Within Reach" - Federal Art Project Community Art Centers]