THE NEW DEAL ART PROJECTS
AN ANTHOLOGY OF MEMOIRS
Francis V. O'Connor (Editor)

Francis V. O'Connor (Editor): THE NEW DEAL ART PROJECTS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MEMOIRS. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972. First edition. A fine hardcover book in a near-fine dust jacket: the DJ has a slight horizontal crease to both panels; very unobtrusive. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Cover illustration is a detail of Philip Guston's 1939 NYC World's Fair mural.

8 x 11 hardcover book with 340 pages and 53 b/w illustrations. Reminiscences of the various Federally sponsored art projects of the 1930s by ten original participating artists and administrators. This wide-ranging collection of memoirs is divided into four parts: the administration of the Projects, the experience of creative artists working as muralists, easel painters, printmakers, and illustrators, recollections of organizations and events related to the creative projects, and a concluding dialogue between four of the authors and the editor which offers a lively insight into the impact of this period on American cultural history.

Contents:

  • Introduction by Francis V. O'Connor
  • Olin Dows: "The New Deal's Treasury Art Program: A Memoir
  • Audrey McMahon: "A General View of the WPA Federal Art Project in New York City and State"
  • Edward Laning: "The New Deal Mural Projects"
  • Joseph Solman: "The Easel Division of the WPA Federal Art Project"
  • Robert Cronbach: "The New Deal Sculpture Projects"
  • Jacob Kainen: "The Graphic Arts Division of the WPA Federal Art Project"
  • Lincoln Rothschild: "The Index of American Design of the WPA Federal Art Project", and "Artists' Organizations of the Depression Decade"
  • Rosalind Bergdorf Browne: "The American Abstract Artists and the WPA Federal Art Project"
  • Olive Lyford Gavert: "The WPA Federal Art Project and the New York World's Fair, 1939-1940"
  • Marchal E. Landgren: "A Memoir of the New York City Municipal Art Galleries, 1936-1939"
  • Dialogue between five of the contributors: Audrey McMahon, Marchal E. Landgren, Jacob Kainen, Olive Lyford Gavert, and Francis V. O'Connor
  • Bibliography

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