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Juliana Force
black-and-white photo of a stern-faced seated woman
Force in about 1920
Born
Juliana Rieser

December 25, 1876
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
DiedAugust 28, 1948
Manhattan, New York
Occupations

Juliana Force (December 25, 1876 – August 28, 1948) was the founding director of the Whitney Museum of Art in the United States.[1] During the Great Depression she was the administrator of Region 2 (New York City and State) of the New Deal-era Public Works of Art Project.[2]

Force was born to Maxmillian Rieser and Juliana Schmutz in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, on December 25, 1876.[3]: 645  She died of cancer in Doctors Hospital in Manhattan on August 28, 1948; she was 71.[3]: 646 

References

  1. ^ Berman, Avis (1990). Rebels on Eighth Street : Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Internet Archive. New York: Atheneum. ISBN 978-0-689-12086-2.
  2. ^ Public Works of Art Project. Report of the Assistant Director of the Treasury to Federal Emergency Relief Administrator, December 8, 1933 – June 30, 1934. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1934. pp. 3–4.
  3. ^ a b Edward James (1971). Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary, volume 1, A–F. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674627345.

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  • Anna Indych-López (2009). Muralism Without Walls: Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros in the United States, 1927–1940. University of Pittsburgh. ISBN 9780822943846.
  • Phyllis J. Read, Bernard L. Witlieb (1992). The Book of Women's Firsts: Breakthrough Achievements of Almost 1,000 American Women. Random House Information Group. ISBN 9780679409755.
  • Gerard C. Wertkin (2013). Encyclopedia of American Folk Art. Routledge. ISBN 9781135956141.
  • Lindsay Pollock (2007). The Girl with the Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert and the Making of the Modern Art Market. New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781586485122, page 130.
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