Public Works of Art Project articles and exhibition catalog
name: label: Creator
content: Public Works of Art Project
label: Creator
content: Corcoran Gallery of Art
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content: United States. Department of the Treasury
label: Names
content: Bruce, Edward, 1879-1943
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content: Watson, Forbes, 1880-1960
topic: label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
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content: Art and state
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content: Federal aid to the public welfare
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content: Painting, American
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content: Art, Modern
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Provenance unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Public Works of Art Project
label: Creator
content: Corcoran Gallery of Art
label: Creator
content: United States. Department of the Treasury
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: PWAP, the first of the New Deal art programs, was established under the Department of the Treasury in December 1933 to assist unemployed artists by enabling them to work on the decoration of non-federal public buildings. Although it lasted only until the following summer, it engaged nearly 4,000 artists in all parts of the country and served as an important precedent for subsequent federal art programs, such as the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Edward Bruce was the director of PWAP and Forbes Watson was the advisor.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933-1934
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3483 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Two articles by Forbes Watson and one article by Edward Bruce on PWAP, ca. 1934; an address by Edward Bruce on the Project printed in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1934; an exhibition announcement of the Washington Committee of the PWAP; and an exhibition catalog, NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ART BY THE PUBLIC WORKS OF ART PROJECT, for an exhibition held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1934.