Section of Fine Arts selected records
name: label: Creator
content: United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts
label: Names
content: United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Painting and Sculpture
label: Names
content: Ealand, Maria
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: Art and state
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to public welfare
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Public sculpture
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1965 by Maria Ealand, a niece of Section administrator Edward Bruce.
creator: 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bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Established 1934 under the Treasury Department as the Section of Painting and Sculpture.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 in 1938 to Section of Fine Arts. 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: 15 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1934-1943
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.unstdept
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel NDA 18 (frames 619-824) available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A brief narrative on the derivation of the Section; a final report, 1934-1943 (31 p.); papers concerning Section competitions, 1934-1943; mural and sculpture contracts for works not installed; report of March 1941; and Section bulletins, catalogs, and guides, 1934-1943.