Federal Art Project card file of artists
name: label: Creator
content: Federal Art Project (U.S.)
label: Creator
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
label: Creator
content: United States. Work Projects Administration
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- United States
label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to public welfare
label: Topic
content: Women artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Provenance unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Federal Art Project (U.S.)
label: Creator
content: United States. Works Progress Administration
label: Creator
content: United States. Work Projects Administration
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Federal Art Project (FAP) fell under the jurisdiction of Federal Project No. 1 of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA was established in May 1935 specifically as a work relief program for the millions of individuals left unemployed during the Depression. Its name changed to the Work Projects Administration in 1939 when it fell under the administrative hand of the newly created Federal Works Agency. The FAP was created in August 1935 to aid unemployed artists, following the precedent set by the Public Works of Art Project and other Treasury department art relief projects.
function: label: Function
content: Agencies
label: Function
content: Programs (organizations)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet ((ca. 650 cards on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1935-1943]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.fedeartp10
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3244 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A card file containing biographical data on artists who participated in or were prospective participants for the Work Projects Administration of the Federal Works Agency. Information on each artist includes name, date and place of birth, state of residence, training, awards, activities, exhibitions of work, and collections containing the artist's work. Cards do not contain information about art work done for the WPA Art Program, although participation in earlier federal and state art patronage projects is mentioned. The creator of the card file is not known. Most of the biographical data covers artist's careers to ca. 1939.