Federal Art Project records of Adele Clark
name: label: Creator
content: Federal Art Project (Va.)
label: Names
content: United States. Work Projects Administration
label: Names
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
label: Names
content: Clark, Adèle, 1882-1983
label: Names
content: Parker, Thomas Cleveland, 1904-1967
label: Names
content: Singleton, Thomas
topic: label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Virginia
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts -- Virginia
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the public welfare -- Virginia
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The donor, Adeline Cox, is the niece of Adele Clark.
creator: label: Creator
content: Federal Art Project (Va.)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Clark was the Virginia state director of the Federal Art Project (FAP); Parker and Singleton were both directors of the Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts, Richmond, Va. The FAP was a federal relief art program established under Federal Project No. 1 of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) which provided work for unemployed artists and craftsmen during the Depression.
function: label: Function
content: Programs (organizations)
label: Function
content: Agencies
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9.7 Linear Feet ((on partial microfilm reel))
label: Extent
content: 0.6 Linear Feet (Reel NDA 2: (on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1931-1963
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.fedeartp11
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel NDA 2 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Unmicrofilmed material: Correspondence of Adele Clark, Thomas Parker, and Thomas Singleton; minutes of meetings time sheets and monthly reports; subject files on various FAP projects; photographs; and prints, watercolors, and sketches done by FAP artists. Most of the records relate to the Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts in Richmond, Va., the Big Stone Gap Community Art Center, and the Index of American Design.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Reel NDA 2: Ca. 500 letters, reports, rosters, directives, manuscripts and other materials pertaining to the FAP in Virginia; ca. 135 photographs of administrators, students, works of art, and art exhibitions; ca. 120 pages of sketches by FAP artists; and news clippings, mimeographed programs, and circulars.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Adele Clark papers; also at: Special Collections, Virginia Commonwealth University.