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“Recreational Activities” (1937) by Edna Hershman for the Nurses Recreation Room in Roosevelt Hospital, North Brother Island. #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenArtists #NewDeal #WPA #PublicArt #TBT
Post WWII she became more involved in Communist circles, including illustrating works. Her politics led the WPA to withdraw support & she lived on the edge, even shoplifting. Ballet Dancer (1950), Richard & Hartley (1950), Phyllis Rubin (1952) & Richard (1952)
#OTD in 1941
‘Opening Sunday January 12 [1941] Mason City Art Center, 105 South Delaware Ave’
Iowa Art Program WPA. 1941.
#WPA #FederalArtProject #IowaArtProgram #WPAposters #MasonCity #Iowa #graphicart #posterdesign #graphicdesign
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WPA Federal Art project ca. 1935-1940:
‘Passports to Adventure’
‘It’s fun to grow things - Take a Book on Nature’
‘Know Other Lands - Read a Book on Canada’
‘Books - Read How They Lived and Read How They Played in - 1861 - Great-Grandmother's Day’
I had the incredible opportunity to work with @dinosaurtravel to create a poster for their Alberta Badlands adventure! Meant to be a fusion of WPA National Park screen prints/Art Deco era travel posters, not used to working this way! 'twas a challenge and a ton of fun
Helen Katharine Forbes (1891-1945) was a Californian artist & educator specializing in etching, murals & painting best known for western landscapes, portrait paintings, and her WPA murals
#womenartists
Fellow designers:
Can we please stop with all the rethinking, reimagining, recreating, reinventing, rebuilding and reworking?
It's time for us to start thinking, imagining, creating, inventing, building and working again.
Yes?
More inspiring WPA work here: https://t.co/AqbBF1f69T
Ruth Chaney (1908-1973) was an American artist known for her printmaking. She created serigraphs for the WPA, leading the subway art division, and was included in the 1938 MoMA show "Subway art"
Her work is @smithsonian @metmuseum
@artinstitutechi &
@ngadc
#womenartists
"Children at Work and Play" (1939) by Helen West Heller for Ward #2 in Neponsit Beach Hospital, Queens. #TBT #WPA #NewDeal #PublicArt #PublicHospitals #PublicDesign @NYCHealthSystem
Final artwork for my chupacabra print. Really happy with the sunset here. #desert #cryptozoology #wpa #procreate #art
1938 WPA poster I've been trying to wrap my head around for three minutes, I think it means even a fucking baby can unionize
Ann Noonie (1900-1975) was an American artist from New Jersey. She completed many commissions for the WPA, and her works are in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
#womenartists
@midjourney typed in: Kermit the Frog National Parks WPA-style poster! This is wild!
Grace Greenwood Ames was an American artist and social realism muralist. She worked in Mexico on murals alongside historical artists and on WPA projects. She and her sister Marion attended the Art Student's League & completed several murals together.
#womenartists
"Evolution of Music & Musical Instruments" (1938) by Lucienne Bloch for George Washington High School, Manhattan. #WomensHistoryMonth #PublicArt #Murals #WPA #PublicSchools #PublicDesign #TBT
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#WomenInNFTs
An Alphabet full of Illustrators...B is For...Vera Bock (1905 -2006) a Russian born Illustrator who spent most of her career in the US. Known both for her Book illustrations and her Illustrations for the WPA during the Great Depression
#BookIllustrationOfTheDay
An Alphabet full of Illustrators...B is For...Vera Bock (1905 -2006) a Russian born Illustrator who spent most of her career in the US. Known both for her Book illustrations and her Illustrations for the WPA during the Great Depression
#BookIllustrationOfTheDay
Today's mood: Elizabeth Olds, Picasso Study Club, color screenprint, 1940. Olds was one of a group of artists who developed innovative approaches to silkscreen printing while working under the WPA in the 1930s @MuseumModernArt https://t.co/dlSTGMxEye