A traveling exhibition featuring WPA-era prints is now open at the Chazen Museum of Art
From 1935 to 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration put more than 8.5 million people to work during the Great Depression. Some of those workers were artists in the Federal Art Project, which asked creative people of all stripes to create during a volatile period of American history. Some focused on everyday life. Others turned their attention to urgent social commentary.
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Photo Credit: Chet La More, “Civilians, ” ca. 1937. Lithograph. Allocated by the US Government, Commissioned through the New Deal art projects, 1943-4-231.