Exhibition : 200 American Watercolors / by the Section of Fine Arts
name: label: Creator
content: United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts
label: Creator
content: United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts
label: Names
content: Bruce, Edward, 1879-1943
label: Names
content: Burchfield, Charles Ephraim, 1893-1967
label: Names
content: Marin, John, 1870-1953
label: Names
content: O'Hara, Eliot, 1890-1969
label: Names
content: Ulreich, Eduard
topic: label: Topic
content: New Deal, 1933-1939
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Art and state
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to public welfare
label: Topic
content: Watercolor painting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Provenance unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts
label: Creator
content: United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Established 1934 under the Treasury Department as the Section of Painting and Sculpture. Name changed to Section of Fine Arts in 1938. In 1939, the Federal Works Agency was established and set up the Public Buildings Administration, which combined the Treasury Department's Public Buildings Branch and the Branch of Public Buildings of the National Park Service. The Section's function was to decorate new federal buildings. Unlike the other New Deal art agencies, it was not a relief project, but awarded contracts through a juried system of competition.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item ((10 p. on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.unstdetr
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm roll 3483 available at all Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An exhibition catalog of 200 American watercolors with a foreword by Edward Bruce and a listing of each artist and the title of his work. The paintings were chosen by a jury including Charles Burchfield, John Marin, Eliot O'Hara, and Buk Ulreich. They were then bought by the U.S. government and hung in the Carville, Louisiana, Marine Hospital.