Photographs relating to the WPA Southern California Art Project
name: label: Creator
content: Perret, Ferdinand, 1888-1960
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (Calif.) -- Photographs
place: label: Place
content: United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American -- California -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts -- California -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939 -- California
label: Topic
content: Art and state -- California
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Transferred in 1993 and 2015 from the National Museum of American Art Library, where it been received in 1949 as part of the Ferdinand Perret Research Library of the Arts and Affiliated Sciences.
creator: label: Creator
content: Perret, Ferdinand, 1888-1960
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Perret was a painter and art restorer whose work led him to begin serious art research. He amassed a large collection of material relating to California art and artists.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1937-1941
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.perrferd1
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 137 b&w photographs compiled by Ferdinand Perret relating to the WPA Southern California Art Project. Depicted are the WPA-FAP Print Department, Los Angeles; Canoga Park petrachrome in progress, 1940; George Washington High School petrachrome in progress; Long Beach Municipal Auditorium tile mosaic; petrachrome seal of Santa Monica, Santa Monica City Hall, 1941; and works of art by Paul Babcock, Glenn Bannister, Grace Clements, Henry Gilbert de Kruif, Ethel Evans, Miriam Farrington, Lorser Feitelson, Henry Helmle, Donal Hord, E.D. Horsky, Harold Gebhardt, Paul Julian, Albert King, Ludwig Kuszewski, Paul Hambleton Landacre, Henry Lion, Helen Lundeberg, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Buckley MacGurrin, Benjamin Newton Messick, Marjorie Morse, Jean Swiggett, Harry Mann Waddell, and others. Many of the photographs are duplicates. Also found is a letter from California artist, Benjamin Messick to Perret regarding printed material for Perret's research libary.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Ferdinand Perret research material on California art and artists collection is located at the Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian American Art Museum Library.