Lawrence Wood "Chip" Robert Jr. was an American government official and engineer who founded the engineering and architectural firm Robert and Company. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury L. W. Robert Jr. in 1933
Robert at Georgia Tech (1904)
The Public Works of Art Project was a New Deal work-relief program that employed professional artists to create sculptures, paintings, crafts and design for public buildings and parks during the Great
L. W. Robert Jr.
…Crackers, Atlanta's minor league baseball team. Robert was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and served from 1933 to 1936; he supervised the Public Works of Art Project, the first arts project of the New Deal. He was then appointed secretary of the Democratic National Committee in 1936, and was the executive officer…
Negro Mother and Child (1934) by Maurice Glickman, commissioned by PWAP and installed at the Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building in 1940
Photograph of the regional directors and Washington, D.C., administrative staff of the Public Works of Art Project (1934)
Astronomer's Monument at Griffith Observatory, 1934