Federal Art Project
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The Federal Art Project was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by
Eagle and palette design regarded as the logo of the Federal Art Project
Poster summarizing Federal Art Project employment and activities (November 1, 1936)
The Workers (c. 1935), a wall hanging created by Florence Kawa for the Milwaukee Handicraft Project, was presented to Eleanor Roosevelt
Seymour Fogel
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Seymour Fogel was an American artist whose artistic output included social realist art early in the century, abstract art and expressionist art at mid-century, and transcendental art late in the centu
Seymour Fogel in 1937
Fogel's home "Southwind" in Austin, Texas
Fogel in 1939, reading a newspaper on his scaffolding while painting a mural
"The Wealth of the Nation," 1938 mural, titled after Scottish economist Adam Smith's 1776 treatise The Wealth of Nations