Jacob Elshin
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Jacob Alexander Elshin was an American artist. Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, he served as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army, and may have been a student at the St. Petersburg Academy. He arr
Jacob Elshin, Miners at Work (1938), commissioned by the Section of Painting and Sculpture for the post office in Renton, Washington
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