Material relating to Edward Bruce
name: label: Creator
content: United States. Public Buildings Service
label: Names
content: Bruce, Edward, 1879-1943
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts -- United States
label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1986 by Public Buildings Service, General Sevices Administration.The file had been found in the desk of Karel Yasko, the GSA's Counsellor for Fine Arts and Historic Preservation.
creator: label: Creator
content: United States. Public Buildings Service
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Bruce, a painter, Washington, D.C., directed the Public Works of Art Project, Dec. 1933 - June 1934 and the Section of Painting and Sculpture (later the Section of Fine Arts), a program in the Treasury Department and later reorganized under the Public Buildings Administration of the Federal Works Agency, established to administer the decoration of public buildings.
function: label: Function
content: Programs (organizations)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 16 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933-1960
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.unstpbbs
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3960 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A letter to Mrs. Bruce from James N. Rosenberg concerning Bruce's papers, 1960; a reprint of an article, "Edward Bruce" by Edwina Spencer, 1933; and photographs, including 4 of Bruce at a children's Christmas party, 5 of a NBC radio broadcast, picturing Bruce, Secretary of the Treasury Harry Morganthau, John Dewey, and others, and one of a drawing of Bruce by Leon Kroll.