William Karp photographs
name: label: Creator
content: Karp, William, 1905-
label: Names
content: Federal Art Project (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Public Works of Art Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration, American
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Muralists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Transferred from the National Museum of American Art, Department of 20th Century Painting and Sculpture, 1985.
creator: label: Creator
content: Karp, William, 1905-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, mural painter; New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 14 Items (photoprints (on partial microfilm reel), b&w, 20 1/2 x 25 1/2 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca.1937-1938]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.karpwill
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3589 (frames 1104-1133) available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Reproduction Note
content: Photographs are copyprints.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Copyprints of photographs of two WPA murals by Karp, "The Normal Pursuits of Man-Production," 1937, in Bellevue Hospital, NYC, and "Armed with Learning and Reality, Looking from the Past to the Future," 1938, in the Hebrew Orphans Asylum, NYC. The photographs show Karp and assistants at work on the murals and the completed murals. Also included are photographs of a design for a PWAP mural, "Electrical Production and Direction" (never executed in mural scale).