WPA Artists' Essays
name: label: Collection Creator
content: O'Connor, Francis V.
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content: Francis V. O'Connor papers
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content: Francis V. O'Connor papers / Series 1: NCFA Library
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content: 1936-1965
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.oconfran, Subseries 1.4
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content: Archival materials
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content: Essays are by WPA artists reflecting on their experiences in the program, which were collected in 1936 by the Washington office of the WPA/FAP to be published in a national report.  By 1943, plans to publish were put on hold indefinitely until the manuscript was rediscovered by O'Connor in 1968 and published under the title Art for the Millions.  Several of these files also contain multiple drafts, copies, and photographs of artists intended to be published alongside their essays.