WPA Photographs: Art

WPA Photographs
Art

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07.01 Art Federal Art Project Artists at the WPA art project workshop, Orleans and Dauphine Sts., lay aside their palettes and mahlsticks and roll up their sleeves to turn out national defense posters by the "silk screen" method. Shown here are Hans Wang, painter, Arthur McArthur, asst. supervisor, and Thomas Byrne, former newspaper layout artist. 12/30/1941

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07.02 Art Federal Art Project Close-up and general view of artist at landscape painting--New Orleans. [NOTE: not really a landscape, but rather a courtyard scene] 12/4/1936

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07.03 Art Federal Art Project Boats and a building. 3/1/1940

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07.04 Art Federal Art Project Mourners (by Geiger) 3/1/1940

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07.05 Art Federal Art Project Vieux Carre building (by Geiger?) 3/1/1940

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07.06 Art Federal Art Project Bird drawing. 9/17/1940

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07.07 Art Federal Art Project Mountainous seacoast with boat drawing 9/17/1940

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07.08 Art Federal Art Project Agricultural scenes (oil paintings) 12/1/1937

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07.09 Art Federal Art Project National defense posters made by WPA artists for the Home Registration Office, Defense Rental Listing Bureau. 8/15/1941

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07.10 Art Federal Art Project Plaster statues sculptured by WPA artists at the project headquarters, 718 Toulouse St. 9/19/1941

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07.11 Art Federal Art Project Portrait of a man (oil painting) 8/19/1938

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07.12 Art Federal Art Project Dock scene with Del Sud (oil painting) 8/19/1938

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07.13 Art Federal Art Project Landscape painting 12/7/1938

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07.14 Art Federal Art Project House and cityscape painting (damaged negative) 12/7/1938

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07.15 Art Federal Art Project Negro WPA art student with painting 1/30/1940

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07.16 Art Federal Art Project WPA negro artist and oil painting 2/1/1940

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07.17 Art Federal Art Project New headquarters for Federal Art Project, 718 Toulouse St. Exterior. 10/26/1939

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07.18 Art Federal Art Project New headquarters for Federal Art Project, 718 Toulouse St. Interior. 10/25/1939

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07.19 Art Federal Art Project One of the many water color pictures which will be exhibited at the New Orleans art project gallery, 718 Toulouse St., at a show featuring water colors and sculpture which opened Sunday. This picture, "House Behind the Church," by Joe Donaldson is a still composed arrangement of pink walls and gray roof tops. The general air of dilapidation is heightened by a precarious angle of the stove pipe and the cross in the upper half of the composition. 10/25/1939

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07.20 Art Federal Art Project One of the many water color pictures which will be exhibited at the New Orleans art project gallery, 718 Toulouse St., at a show featuring water colors and sculpture which opened Sunday. This picture, "Railroad Station," by Amelia Geiger, is a fine piece of well controlled water technique in clear tones. 10/25/1939

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07.21 Art Federal Art Project Paintings at Federal Theatre by Federal Art Project. 9/20/1938

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07.22 Art Federal Art Project Recent paintings by Federal Art Project, located in new quarters. 10/25/1939

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07.23 Art Federal Art Project Several samples of the posters made by WPA artists for national defense by the "silk screen" method. 12/30/1941

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07.24 Art Federal Art Project WPA arts exhibit at Arts and Crafts Club on Royal St. 1/8/1938

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07.25 Art Federal Art Project WPA artists at work at the project's headquarters, 718 Toulouse St. They are now preparing for the celebration of National Art Week, November 17-23. 9/19/1941

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07.26 Art Federal Art Project WPA artists mount New Orleans air raid warning maps at the project work shop, St. Peter and Dauphine Streets. This map, which shows geographic areas of 500 population, was made by another WPA project for the Office of Civilian Defense. The maps were delivered to Mr. Alcee Legendre, New Orleans coordinator of civilian defense. 1/16/1942

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07.27 Art Federal Art Project WPA artists prepare posters for national defense program. 3/20/1941

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07.28 Art Federal Art Project Copies of paintings by workers on the art project, 718 Toulouse St. 4/9/1940

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07.29 Art Federal Art Project Copies of paintings by workers on the New Orleans art project. 7/10/1940

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07.30 Art Federal Art Project Copies of posters made by workers of the Art Project for national defense. 6/21/1940

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07.31 Art Federal Art Project Copies of posters made by WPA artists for the Homes Registration Office, Defense Rental Listing Bureau. 11/15/1941

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07.32 Art Federal Art Project Copies of sketch (of railroad station). 12/20/1939

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07.33 Art Federal Art Project Copies of statues representing characters from "The Land of Oz." 7/9/1941

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07.34 Art Federal Art Project Copy of oil painting by Hans Mangelsdorf, Federal Art Project, Negroes walking up gang plank. 8/10/1938

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07.35 Art Federal Art Project Copy of cover for accomplishment for Art Week, designed by J. Donaldson, Jr., one of the WPA artists who actively participated in celebration of the week. 12/30/1941

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07.36 Art Federal Art Project Copy of oil painting, "Slums." 1/30/1940

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07.37 Art Federal Art Project Copy of painting for New Orleans Art Project. 3/10/1941

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07.38 Art Federal Art Project Copy of the Rockefeller Creed drawn up by the Federal Art Project of New Orleans. 7/21/1941

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07.39 Art Federal Art Project Paintings by artist Knute Heldner of the Federal Art Project. Negatives #1 & #5 damaged. 3/4/1937

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07.40 Art Federal Art Project Exhibit of Federal Art during Fiesta, 718 Toulouse St. 3/9/1940

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07.41 Art Federal Art Project Federal Art Project, 1561 Canal St. 10/2/1936

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07.42 Art Federal Art Project The first prize trophy for a drawing of an official insignia for the New Orleans Zoological Society has been awarded to Thomas S. Bryne (right), designer for the WPA statewide art project. Second place went to Alvin Doria, another WPA artist (left). Taking part were 124 artists. 8/9/1941

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07.43 Art Federal Art Project Lifesize painting of Lieutenant Eugene H. Barksdale, World War flier, by WPA artist Knute Heldner. 12/4/1936

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07.44 Art Federal Art Project Miss Amelia Geiger, artist employed on the WPA art project, whose painting "Mourners" was exhibited at the New York World's Fair. 8/19/1940

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07.45 Art Federal Art Project Miss Angela Gregory, state supervisor of the WPA art project, turns over to Miss Mary James, executive secretary of the Civilian Defense Volunteers Registration Office, the first of 200 "civilian defense" posters produced by WPA artists. 12/30/1941

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07.46 Art Federal Art Project Mrs. Ethel Crumb Brett, art director of Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, who is Louisiana chairman for National Art Week, November 17-23. 9/20/1941

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07.47 Art Federal Art Project WPA workers sketching costumes. 2/2/1937

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07.48 Art National Art Week Among the distinguished "first day" visitors at the central exhibition were Mrs. Sam Jones (center), wife of Louisiana's governor, and General Raymond Fleming, Adjutant General of the state. Mrs. Ethel Crumb Brett, Louisiana chairman for National Art Week, was their guide. 11/17/1941

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07.49 Art National Art Week Among the young New Orleans artists who were represented at the youth's educational exhibit at the YMHA during Art Week are these students of the Metairie Country Day School: Edward Heller, Adair Chamber, Irving Cummins and Miss E. Kimball, instructor (negative #8); Edith Helen Field, Laura Landry, Barbara Strong, and Miss Kimball. 11/17/1941

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07.50 Art National Art Week Among the young New Orleans artists who were represented at the youth's educational exhibit at the YMHA during Art Week will be these Eleanor McMain high school students who are pictured painting a mural in the corridor of the school: Betty Lou Neuwirth, Marilyn Wagner, and Miss Olga Peters, instructor, Gertrude Stansberry and Grance Muller (on ladder--negative #4); Christeen Young, Gayle Hughes, Mary McGowan, Lois Townley (on ladder), Sybil Jung (seated), and Jane Menz (negatives #1 & 2). 11/17/1941

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07.51 Art National Art Week The announcement by National Art Week chairman Thomas B. Watson that his IBM would buy one painting and one piece of sculpture from each state injected a competitive spirit into the observance. Louisiana's winner was a WPA artist, Joe Donaldson, who was paide $50 for his water color, "Gretna Gothic." The painting was placed in the New Orleans IBM office building window where Donaldson was "caught" by a photographer. 11/17/1941

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07.52 Art National Art Week Art connoisseur and antique dealer is Dr. Isaac Cline, once a star forecaster for the U.S. Weather Bureau and recognized internationally as an authority on tropical hurricanes. He is shown here at the central exhibition with (left to right) Mrs. H.H. Schutz, Miss Willie Reid, and Mrs. Alice Barton. 11/17/1941

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07.53 Art National Art Week Art pupils of the Newman school who exhibited at the YMHA during Art Week. These students are making metal designs for the display: (left to right) John Dreyfous, Petie Kelly, Claire Rouff, Frances Sontheimer, Lorraine Hurwitz, Miss Marcelle Peret, instructor, Fred Tamke, Robert Burt, and James Lund (seated--negative #1). Pupils working on still life paintings are: Elizabeth Nicholson (foreground), Gerry Manzoni, and Miss Peret. 11/17/1941

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07.54 Art National Art Week Central exhibit of National Art Week in New Orleans had a preview on Sunday, the day before the official opening of the week. This group is interested in a bronze bust by Miss Angela Gregory, state supervisor of the WPA art program and a well-known New Orleans sculptress. 11/17/1941

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07.55 Art National Art Week Clarence Millet, WPA artist, putting the last strokes on his oil painting "Bayou Road" which he will display during National Art Week. 11/17/1941

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07.56 Art National Art Week Copies of paintings done by artists assigned to the WPA art project which will be displayed at the central exhibit for Art Week on the 12th floor of the Roosevelt Hotel. 11/17/1941

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07.57 Art National Art Week Copies of paintings and sculpture which wil be exhibited during National Art Week. 11/18/1941

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07.58 Art National Art Week Copies of paintings which will be exhibited in New Orleans during National Art Week. These paintings were done by artists assigned to the WPA art project at 718 Toulouse St. 9/23/1941

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07.59 Art National Art Week Dr. John Fletcher, Miss Angela Gregory (center), and Mrs. John McCrady photographed at the opening of Art Week. Miss Gregory is supervisor of the WPA art project and Mrs. McCrady is the wife of a well known New Orleans artist. 11/17/1941

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07.60 Art National Art Week Exhibit at 525 Madison St. during National Art Week. 11/24/1940

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07.61 Art National Art Week Exhibition at the Delgado Museum in City Park during National Art Week. 11/24/1940

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07.62 Art National Art Week Feature of the art week program in New Orleans, art and cultural center of the south, is an educational exhibit for art students in private, public and parochial schools. Art teachers took their students on tours of the various exhibits and encluraged them to enter their own works of art. These girls from Eleanor McMain high school shown here are studying the works of contemporary American artists at the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art. 11/17/1941

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07.63 Art National Art Week The first purchaser during National Art Week in New Orleans was Mrs. Harrison Fisher, widow of a wealthy Los Angeles oil man and a member of the art week committee for her home city. Mrs. Fisher was visiting in New Orleans and accompanied her hostess to the central exhibition. She paid $100 for an oil, "The Bayou at Lafitte," painted by Clarence Millet, a WPA artist. They are posing with Millet's painting. 11/17/1941

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07.64 Art National Art Week For two days an art jury selected by the Louisiana committee on Art Week, weighed the works of Louisiana artists to be placed on sale at the central exhibit in New Orleans. Paul Cox (in foreground), a well known New Orleans craftsman, and Albert Ricker, New Orleans sculptor on the jury, are here studying the relative merits of several pieces of sculpture. 11/17/1941

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07.65 Art National Art Week For two days an art jury selected by the Louisiana committee on Art Week, weighed the works of Louisiana artists to be placed on sale at the central exhibit in New Orleans. These views show prominent craftsmen, sculptors and artists studying the relative merits of several pieces of art at the WPA art project headquarters, 718 Toulouse St. 11/17/1941

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07.66 Art National Art Week Foster Jewell and the oil painting he will exhibit at the Roosevelt Hotel during National Art Week. 11/17/1941

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07.67 Art National Art Week Joe Donaldson, Jr., and his water color drawing, "Sky Line," which will be on display at the central exhibit for Art Week on the twelfth floor of the Roosevelt Hotel. 11/17/1941

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07.68 Art National Art Week Joe Donaldson viewed the central exhibition with Mill Helen Turner, one of America's best known women artists. Now residing in New Orleans, Miss Turner has paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and other permanent exhibitions. 11/17/1941

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07.69 Art National Art Week Members of women's committee hold conference for National Art Week. 11/22/1940

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07.70 Art National Art Week Mrs. Ethel Crumb Brett, Louisiana chairman for National Art Week and Mrs. Harrison Fisher of Los Angeles, first purchaser of art week in New Orleans. Visiting here, Mrs. Fisher bought an oil painting from Clarence Millet, a WPA artist. She is a member of the Los Angeles committee for Art Week. 11/17/1941

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07.71 Art National Art Week Mrs. Ethel Crumb Brett, Louisiana chairman for Art Week, Mr. George Gardiner, manufacturers secretary for the New Orleans Association of Commerce and chairman of the jury which selected art works for the central exhibition. For two days the jury weighed the works of Louisiana artists to be placed on sale during the week. 11/17/1941

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07.72 Art National Art Week Mrs. Ethel Crumb Brett, Louisiana chairman for Art Week, was the guide of Armin Scheler and his son when they visited the central exhibition at the Roosevelt Hotel. Mr. Scheler was the sculptor of the façade for New Orleans' new Federal building, and recently gave a lecture at the WPA art project headquarters. 11/17/1941

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07.73 Art National Art Week Mrs. Frederick Hard (left) and Mrs. Elizabeth Werlein at the opening of the central exhibition of National Art Week in the Tip Top Room of the Roosevelt Hotel. Mrs. Hard is the wife of the dean of the Newcomb Art School. 11/17/1941

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07.74 Art National Art Week Mrs. Otto Schwartz, chairman of the committee of women's activities, is shown here in the patio of the WPA art project headquarters at 718 Toulouse St. 11/17/1941

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07.75 Art National Art Week National Art Week, being celebrated during the week of November 25th. 11/18/1940

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07.76 Art National Art Week The only piece of soldier art on exhibition of the central exhibition of National Art Week, Tip Top Room of the Roosevelt Hotel, is being viewed by Private Murray Coxe of Greensville, N.C., and Miss Louise Ramoneda, a Newcomb art student. Private Coxe is attending the U.S. Army's ground school training center at Delgado School. 11/17/1941

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07.77 Art National Art Week Outstanding among the many exhibits in New Orleans for National Art Week was that at the Arts and Crafts Club, one of Louisiana's leading organizations of artists. 11/17/1941

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07.78 Art National Art Week Photographed during the opening of the central exhibition of Art Week held in the Tip Top Room of the Roosevelt Hotel are (left to right) Mrs. Ethel Crumb Brett, Louisiana chairman for Art Week, Mrs. J. D. Hardin and Mrs. L. M. Williams. 11/17/1941

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07.79 Art National Art Week Posing on the veranda of the WPA arts project are three of the persons responsible for the observance of Art Week: (left to right) Mrs. Ethel Crumb Brett, chairman, Miss Angela Gregory, WPA art supervisor, and George Gardiner, manufacturers secretary for the New Orleans Association of Commerce and chairman of the jury which selected art works for the central exhibition. 11/17/1941

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07.80 Art National Art Week Pupils of the Bessie Hearn school are busy this year illustrating the manuscript of a Mayan story. The Middle American Research Institute museum of Tulane University is cooperating in the many trips for study and sketching. These students will exhibit at the YMHA. They are (negative#5) Miss Jeannette LeBeuf, instructor; Linda Dragon and Shaun Vigeurie; (negatives #3 & 4) Dionne Kelly, Carol Williams, Tommy Farmer, Jere Wellborn, Bill Marsh, Linda Dragon, Miss LeBeuf, Joan Marks, Anite McDougal, Shaun Vigeurie and Lester Lautenschlaeger. 11/17/1941

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07.81 Art National Art Week State headquarters report on National Art Week observance in Louisiana showing state sales report, list of state advisory council and index (Photograchic copies of pages from typewritten report). 12/3/1941

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07.82 Art National Art Week Students from the Metairie Park Country Day School are being instructed by Hans Wang, WPA artist, in the use of a screen for poster making. 11/17/1941

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07.83 Art National Art Week Uniforms were in evidence among the gathering of 2,000 art lovers who attended the opening of New Orleans central exhibition. These sailors from the U. S. Coast Guard training station are (left to right): Howard Cressmen, Hazelton, Pa., John Gyore, Jamaica, N. Y., Gordon Lyons, Boston, Ma., and Carl Schwartz, the Bronx, N. Y. They are pictured here with Mrs. Justin Parrisher (left) and Mrs. J. D. Hardin, Jr., members of the Louisiana committee for Art Week. 11/17/1941

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07.84 Art National Art Week WPA artists in New Orleans had a separate showing of their "spare time" work which was placed on sale at the WPA art gallery. Feature of the opening was a lecture by Armin Scheler, sculptor of the façade for New Orleans' new Federal Building who is shown here with (left) Mrs. Ethel Crumb Brett, Louisiana chairman, Arthur McArthur, assistant supervisor of the WPA art project who first novel, "After the Afternoon," has just been published, and Miss Angela Gregory, WPA art supervisor and sculptor. 11/17/1941

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07.85 Art National Art Week William Perkins, WPA artist, will display this bar room scene during National Art Week. 11/17/1941

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07.86 Art Federal Art Project WPA artists making mural at the Canal Street Branch of the New Orleans Public Library 7/25/1940

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07.87 Art Federal Art Project Mural at the Canal Street branch public library. 6/27/1941

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07.88 Art Federal Art Project Copy of original sketch to be used in the Canal Street branch of the New Orleans Public Library. 7/25/1940

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07.89 Art Federal Art Project Chiseling figures on wall of tropical bird house, Audubon Park Zoo. 7/21/1939

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07.90 Art Federal Art Project Chiseling figures on bird house, Audubon Park Zoo. 8/1/1939

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07.91 Art Federal Art Project At the tropical bird house in Audubon Park, two WPA artists carved this procession of animals which stretches across the wall. This is a panorama view. 11/13/1940

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07.92 Art Federal Art Project Two WPA artists have just completed work on the tropical bird house at Audubon Park. The scene depicts Noah leading the animals into the ark, two by two. The procession stretches across the wall and the carving was done directly in the brick. 11/13/1940

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07.93 Art Federal Art Project Art class conducted by WPA instructors for children at the Gentilly Terrace School. Click here for the names of the children and teacher in the photographs. 7/23/1940

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Series Number	Project	Series Title	Description	Date Taken	Negatives	Contact Prints	Digital #
07.01	Art	Federal Art Project	Artists at the WPA art project workshop, Orleans and Dauphine Sts., lay aside their palettes and mahlsticks and roll up their sleeves to turn out national defense posters by the "silk screen" method. Shown here are Hans Wang, painter, Arthur McArthur, asst. supervisor, and Thomas Byrne, former newspaper layout artist.	12/30/1941	3		1; 2; 3
07.02	Art	Federal Art Project	Close-up and general view of artist at landscape painting--New Orleans. [NOTE: not really a landscape, but rather a courtyard scene]	12/4/1936	2	2	1; 2
07.03	Art	Federal Art Project	Boats and a building.	3/1/1940	1	1	1
07.04	Art	Federal Art Project	Mourners (by Geiger)	3/1/1940	1		1
07.05	Art	Federal Art Project	Vieux Carre building (by Geiger?)	3/1/1940	1		1
07.06	Art	Federal Art Project	Bird drawing.	9/17/1940	2	1	2
07.07	Art	Federal Art Project	Mountainous seacoast with boat drawing	9/17/1940	2		1
07.08	Art	Federal Art Project	Agricultural scenes (oil paintings)	12/1/1937	6	1	3; 4; 6
07.09	Art	Federal Art Project	National defense posters made by WPA artists for the Home Registration Office, Defense Rental Listing Bureau.	8/15/1941	10		1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 9
07.10	Art	Federal Art Project	Plaster statues sculptured by WPA artists at the project headquarters, 718 Toulouse St.	9/19/1941	6		1; 2; 6
07.11	Art	Federal Art Project	Portrait of a man (oil painting)	8/19/1938	4		1
07.12	Art	Federal Art Project	Dock scene with Del Sud (oil painting)	8/19/1938	4	2	2
07.13	Art	Federal Art Project	Landscape painting	12/7/1938	0	1 (no negative)
07.14	Art	Federal Art Project	House and cityscape painting (damaged negative)	12/7/1938	1
07.15	Art	Federal Art Project	Negro WPA art student with painting	1/30/1940	2	1	1; 2
07.16	Art	Federal Art Project	WPA negro artist and oil painting	2/1/1940	5	1	1; 4; 5
07.17	Art	Federal Art Project	New headquarters for Federal Art Project, 718 Toulouse St. Exterior.	10/26/1939	3	1	1; 2; 3
07.18	Art	Federal Art Project	New headquarters for Federal Art Project, 718 Toulouse St. Interior.	10/25/1939	7	4	2; 3; 5
07.19	Art	Federal Art Project	One of the many water color pictures which will be exhibited at the New Orleans art project gallery, 718 Toulouse St., at a show featuring water colors and sculpture which opened Sunday. This picture, "House Behind the Church," by Joe Donaldson is a still composed arrangement of pink walls and gray roof tops. The general air of dilapidation is heightened by a precarious angle of the stove pipe and the cross in the upper half of the composition.	10/25/1939	1	1	1
07.20	Art	Federal Art Project	One of the many water color pictures which will be exhibited at the New Orleans art project gallery, 718 Toulouse St., at a show featuring water colors and sculpture which opened Sunday. This picture, "Railroad Station," by Amelia Geiger, is a fine piece of well controlled water technique in clear tones.	10/25/1939	1	1	1
07.21	Art	Federal Art Project	Paintings at Federal Theatre by Federal Art Project.	9/20/1938	2	1	2
07.22	Art	Federal Art Project	Recent paintings by Federal Art Project, located in new quarters.	10/25/1939	5	2	1; 2; 3; 4; 5
07.23	Art	Federal Art Project	Several samples of the posters made by WPA artists for national defense by the "silk screen" method.	12/30/1941	5	0	1; 3; 3b; 4; 5
07.24	Art	Federal Art Project	WPA arts exhibit at Arts and Crafts Club on Royal St.	1/8/1938	3	3	1; 2; 3
07.25	Art	Federal Art Project	WPA artists at work at the project's headquarters, 718 Toulouse St. They are now preparing for the celebration of National Art Week, November 17-23.	9/19/1941	2	0	2
07.26	Art	Federal Art Project	WPA artists mount New Orleans air raid warning maps at the project work shop, St. Peter and Dauphine Streets. This map, which shows geographic areas of 500 population, was made by another WPA project for the Office of Civilian Defense. The maps were delivered to Mr. Alcee Legendre, New Orleans coordinator of civilian defense.	1/16/1942	6	0	1; 2; 5
07.27	Art	Federal Art Project	WPA artists prepare posters for national defense program.	3/20/1941	5	0	1; 2; 3
07.28	Art	Federal Art Project	Copies of paintings by workers on the art project, 718 Toulouse St.	4/9/1940	9	9	1; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9
07.29	Art	Federal Art Project	Copies of paintings by workers on the New Orleans art project.	7/10/1940	4	1	2; 4
07.30	Art	Federal Art Project	Copies of posters made by workers of the Art Project for national defense.	6/21/1940	11	11	1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10
07.31	Art	Federal Art Project	Copies of posters made by WPA artists for the Homes Registration Office, Defense Rental Listing Bureau.	11/15/1941	4	0	1; 3
07.32	Art	Federal Art Project	Copies of sketch (of railroad station).	12/20/1939	1	1	1
07.33	Art	Federal Art Project	Copies of statues representing characters from "The Land of Oz."	7/9/1941	3	0	1; 2; 3
07.34	Art	Federal Art Project	Copy of oil painting by Hans Mangelsdorf, Federal Art Project, Negroes walking up gang plank.	8/10/1938	3	2	3
07.35	Art	Federal Art Project	Copy of cover for accomplishment for Art Week, designed by J. Donaldson, Jr., one of the WPA artists who actively participated in celebration of the week.	12/30/1941	1	0	1
07.36	Art	Federal Art Project	Copy of oil painting, "Slums."	1/30/1940	0	1 (no negative)
07.37	Art	Federal Art Project	Copy of painting for New Orleans Art Project.	3/10/1941	2	0	2
07.38	Art	Federal Art Project	Copy of the Rockefeller Creed drawn up by the Federal Art Project of New Orleans.	7/21/1941	3	0	1
07.39	Art	Federal Art Project	Paintings by artist Knute Heldner of the Federal Art Project. Negatives #1 & #5 damaged.	3/4/1937	5	5	2; 3; 4
07.40	Art	Federal Art Project	Exhibit of Federal Art during Fiesta, 718 Toulouse St.	3/9/1940	4	1	1; 3
07.41	Art	Federal Art Project	Federal Art Project, 1561 Canal St.	10/2/1936	1	1	1
07.42	Art	Federal Art Project	The first prize trophy for a drawing of an official insignia for the New Orleans Zoological Society has been awarded to Thomas S. Bryne (right), designer for the WPA statewide art project. Second place went to Alvin Doria, another WPA artist (left). Taking part were 124 artists.	8/9/1941	2	0	2
07.43	Art	Federal Art Project	Lifesize painting of Lieutenant Eugene H. Barksdale, World War flier, by WPA artist Knute Heldner.	12/4/1936	1	1	1
07.44	Art	Federal Art Project	Miss Amelia Geiger, artist employed on the WPA art project, whose painting "Mourners" was exhibited at the New York World's Fair.	8/19/1940	1	1	1
07.45	Art	Federal Art Project	Miss Angela Gregory, state supervisor of the WPA art project, turns over to Miss Mary James, executive secretary of the Civilian Defense Volunteers Registration Office, the first of 200 "civilian defense" posters produced by WPA artists.	12/30/1941	3	0	2; 3
07.46	Art	Federal Art Project	Mrs. Ethel Crumb Brett, art director of Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, who is Louisiana chairman for National Art Week, November 17-23.	9/20/1941	6	0	1; 2; 6
07.47	Art	Federal Art Project	WPA workers sketching costumes.	2/2/1937	6	1	1; 2; 4; 5; 6
07.48	Art	National Art Week	Among the distinguished "first day" visitors at the central exhibition were Mrs. Sam Jones (center), wife of Louisiana's governor, and General Raymond Fleming, Adjutant General of the state. Mrs. Ethel Crumb Brett, Louisiana chairman for National Art Week, was their guide.	11/17/1941	1	0	1
07.49	Art	National Art Week	Among the young New Orleans artists who were represented at the youth's educational exhibit at the YMHA during Art Week are these students of the Metairie Country Day School: Edward Heller, Adair Chamber, Irving Cummins and Miss E. Kimball, instructor (negative #8); Edith Helen Field, Laura Landry, Barbara Strong, and Miss Kimball.	11/17/1941	3	0	1; 2; 3
07.50	Art	National Art Week	Among the young New Orleans artists who were represented at the youth's educational exhibit at the YMHA during Art Week will be these Eleanor McMain high school students who are pictured painting a mural in the corridor of the school: Betty Lou Neuwirth, Marilyn Wagner, and Miss Olga Peters, instructor, Gertrude Stansberry and Grance Muller (on ladder--negative #4); Christeen Young, Gayle Hughes, Mary McGowan, Lois Townley (on ladder), Sybil Jung (seated), and Jane Menz (negatives #1 & 2).	11/17/1941	3	0	1; 3
07.51	Art	National Art Week	The announcement by National Art Week chairman Thomas B. Watson that his IBM would buy one painting and one piece of sculpture from each state injected a competitive spirit into the observance. Louisiana's winner was a WPA artist, Joe Donaldson, who was paide $50 for his water color, "Gretna Gothic." The painting was placed in the New Orleans IBM office building window where Donaldson was "caught" by a photographer.	11/17/1941	3	0	1
07.52	Art	National Art Week	Art connoisseur and antique dealer is Dr. Isaac Cline, once a star forecaster for the U.S. Weather Bureau and recognized internationally as an authority on tropical hurricanes. He is shown here at the central exhibition with (left to right) Mrs. H.H. Schutz, Miss Willie Reid, and Mrs. Alice Barton.	11/17/1941	1	0	1
07.53	Art	National Art Week	Art pupils of the Newman school who exhibited at the YMHA during Art Week. These students are making metal designs for the display: (left to right) John Dreyfous, Petie Kelly, Claire Rouff, Frances Sontheimer, Lorraine Hurwitz, Miss Marcelle Peret, instructor, Fred Tamke, Robert Burt, and James Lund (seated--negative #1). Pupils working on still life paintings are: Elizabeth Nicholson (foreground), Gerry Manzoni, and Miss Peret.	11/17/1941	2	0	1; 2
07.54	Art	National Art Week	Central exhibit of National Art Week in New Orleans had a preview on Sunday, the day before the official opening of the week. This group is interested in a bronze bust by Miss Angela Gregory, state supervisor of the WPA art program and a well-known New Orleans sculptress.	11/17/1941	3	0	1; 2
07.55	Art	National Art Week	Clarence Millet, WPA artist, putting the last strokes on his oil painting "Bayou Road" which he will display during National Art Week.	11/17/1941	1	0	1
07.56	Art	National Art Week	Copies of paintings done by artists assigned to the WPA art project which will be displayed at the central exhibit for Art Week on the 12th floor of the Roosevelt Hotel.	11/17/1941	9	0	1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9
07.57	Art	National Art Week	Copies of paintings and sculpture which wil be exhibited during National Art Week.	11/18/1941	6	4	1; 2; 3; 4; 5
07.58	Art	National Art Week	Copies of paintings which will be exhibited in New Orleans during National Art Week. These paintings were done by artists assigned to the WPA art project at 718 Toulouse St.	9/23/1941	8	0	1
07.59	Art	National Art Week	Dr. John Fletcher, Miss Angela Gregory (center), and Mrs. John McCrady photographed at the opening of Art Week. Miss Gregory is supervisor of the WPA art project and Mrs. McCrady is the wife of a well known New Orleans artist.	11/17/1941	1	0	1
07.60	Art	National Art Week	Exhibit at 525 Madison St. during National Art Week.	11/24/1940	3	3	1; 2; 3
07.61	Art	National Art Week	Exhibition at the Delgado Museum in City Park during National Art Week.	11/24/1940	5	5	1; 2; 3; 4; 5
07.62	Art	National Art Week	Feature of the art week program in New Orleans, art and cultural center of the south, is an educational exhibit for art students in private, public and parochial schools. Art teachers took their students on tours of the various exhibits and encluraged them to enter their own works of art. These girls from Eleanor McMain high school shown here are studying the works of contemporary American artists at the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art.	11/17/1941	5	0	1; 2; 5
07.63	Art	National Art Week	The first purchaser during National Art Week in New Orleans was Mrs. Harrison Fisher, widow of a wealthy Los Angeles oil man and a member of the art week committee for her home city. Mrs. Fisher was visiting in New Orleans and accompanied her hostess to the central exhibition. She paid $100 for an oil, "The Bayou at Lafitte," painted by Clarence Millet, a WPA artist. They are posing with Millet's painting.	11/17/1941	1	0	1
07.64	Art	National Art Week	For two days an art jury selected by the Louisiana committee on Art Week, weighed the works of Louisiana artists to be placed on sale at the central exhibit in New Orleans. Paul Cox (in foreground), a well known New Orleans craftsman, and Albert Ricker, New Orleans sculptor on the jury, are here studying the relative merits of several pieces of sculpture.	11/17/1941	2	0	1; 2
07.65	Art	National Art Week	For two days an art jury selected by the Louisiana committee on Art Week, weighed the works of Louisiana artists to be placed on sale at the central exhibit in New Orleans. These views show prominent craftsmen, sculptors and artists studying the relative merits of several pieces of art at the WPA art project headquarters, 718 Toulouse St.	11/17/1941	6	0	1; 2; 3; 5; 6
07.66	Art	National Art Week	Foster Jewell and the oil painting he will exhibit at the Roosevelt Hotel during National Art Week.	11/17/1941	1	0	1
07.67	Art	National Art Week	Joe Donaldson, Jr., and his water color drawing, "Sky Line," which will be on display at the central exhibit for Art Week on the twelfth floor of the Roosevelt Hotel.	11/17/1941	1	0	1
07.68	Art	National Art Week	Joe Donaldson viewed the central exhibition with Mill Helen Turner, one of America's best known women artists. Now residing in New Orleans, Miss Turner has paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and other permanent exhibitions.	11/17/1941	2	0	1; 2
07.69	Art	National Art Week	Members of women's committee hold conference for National Art Week.	11/22/1940	13	13	4; 7; 8; 9; 11; 12; 13
07.70	Art	National Art Week	Mrs. Ethel Crumb Brett, Louisiana chairman for National Art Week and Mrs. Harrison Fisher of Los Angeles, first purchaser of art week in New Orleans. Visiting here, Mrs. Fisher bought an oil painting from Clarence Millet, a WPA artist. She is a member of the Los Angeles committee for Art Week.	11/17/1941	1	0	1
07.71	Art	National Art Week	Mrs. Ethel Crumb Brett, Louisiana chairman for Art Week, Mr. George Gardiner, manufacturers secretary for the New Orleans Association of Commerce and chairman of the jury which selected art works for the central exhibition. For two days the jury weighed the works of Louisiana artists to be placed on sale during the week.	11/17/1941	1	0	1
07.72	Art	National Art Week	Mrs. Ethel Crumb Brett, Louisiana chairman for Art Week, was the guide of Armin Scheler and his son when they visited the central exhibition at the Roosevelt Hotel. Mr. Scheler was the sculptor of the façade for New Orleans' new Federal building, and recently gave a lecture at the WPA art project headquarters.	11/17/1941	2	0	1; 2
07.73	Art	National Art Week	Mrs. Frederick Hard (left) and Mrs. Elizabeth Werlein at the opening of the central exhibition of National Art Week in the Tip Top Room of the Roosevelt Hotel. Mrs. Hard is the wife of the dean of the Newcomb Art School.	11/17/1941	1	0	1
07.74	Art	National Art Week	Mrs. Otto Schwartz, chairman of the committee of women's activities, is shown here in the patio of the WPA art project headquarters at 718 Toulouse St.	11/17/1941	2	0	1; 2
07.75	Art	National Art Week	National Art Week, being celebrated during the week of November 25th.	11/18/1940	6	6	3; 4; 6
07.76	Art	National Art Week	The only piece of soldier art on exhibition of the central exhibition of National Art Week, Tip Top Room of the Roosevelt Hotel, is being viewed by Private Murray Coxe of Greensville, N.C., and Miss Louise Ramoneda, a Newcomb art student. Private Coxe is attending the U.S. Army's ground school training center at Delgado School.	11/17/1941	1	0	1
07.77	Art	National Art Week	Outstanding among the many exhibits in New Orleans for National Art Week was that at the Arts and Crafts Club, one of Louisiana's leading organizations of artists.	11/17/1941	4	0	1; 3; 4
07.78	Art	National Art Week	Photographed during the opening of the central exhibition of Art Week held in the Tip Top Room of the Roosevelt Hotel are (left to right) Mrs. Ethel Crumb Brett, Louisiana chairman for Art Week, Mrs. J. D. Hardin and Mrs. L. M. Williams.	11/17/1941	1	0	1
07.79	Art	National Art Week	Posing on the veranda of the WPA arts project are three of the persons responsible for the observance of Art Week: (left to right) Mrs. Ethel Crumb Brett, chairman, Miss Angela Gregory, WPA art supervisor, and George Gardiner, manufacturers secretary for the New Orleans Association of Commerce and chairman of the jury which selected art works for the central exhibition.	11/17/1941	1	0	1
07.80	Art	National Art Week	Pupils of the Bessie Hearn school are busy this year illustrating the manuscript of a Mayan story. The Middle American Research Institute museum of Tulane University is cooperating in the many trips for study and sketching. These students will exhibit at the YMHA. They are (negative#5) Miss Jeannette LeBeuf, instructor; Linda Dragon and Shaun Vigeurie; (negatives #3 & 4) Dionne Kelly, Carol Williams, Tommy Farmer, Jere Wellborn, Bill Marsh, Linda Dragon, Miss LeBeuf, Joan Marks, Anite McDougal, Shaun Vigeurie and Lester Lautenschlaeger.	11/17/1941	3	0	2; 3
07.81	Art	National Art Week	State headquarters report on National Art Week observance in Louisiana showing state sales report, list of state advisory council and index (Photograchic copies of pages from typewritten report).	12/3/1941	4	0
07.82	Art	National Art Week	Students from the Metairie Park Country Day School are being instructed by Hans Wang, WPA artist, in the use of a screen for poster making.	11/17/1941	1	0	1
07.83	Art	National Art Week	Uniforms were in evidence among the gathering of 2,000 art lovers who attended the opening of New Orleans central exhibition. These sailors from the U. S. Coast Guard training station are (left to right): Howard Cressmen, Hazelton, Pa., John Gyore, Jamaica, N. Y., Gordon Lyons, Boston, Ma., and Carl Schwartz, the Bronx, N. Y. They are pictured here with Mrs. Justin Parrisher (left) and Mrs. J. D. Hardin, Jr., members of the Louisiana committee for Art Week.	11/17/1941	3	0	1; 2; 3
07.84	Art	National Art Week	WPA artists in New Orleans had a separate showing of their "spare time" work which was placed on sale at the WPA art gallery. Feature of the opening was a lecture by Armin Scheler, sculptor of the façade for New Orleans' new Federal Building who is shown here with (left) Mrs. Ethel Crumb Brett, Louisiana chairman, Arthur McArthur, assistant supervisor of the WPA art project who first novel, "After the Afternoon," has just been published, and Miss Angela Gregory, WPA art supervisor and sculptor.	11/17/1941	2	0	1; 2
07.85	Art	National Art Week	William Perkins, WPA artist, will display this bar room scene during National Art Week.	11/17/1941	2	0	1
07.86	Art	Federal Art Project	WPA artists making mural at the Canal Street Branch of the New Orleans Public Library	7/25/1940	4	1	2; 3
07.87	Art	Federal Art Project	Mural at the Canal Street branch public library.	6/27/1941	9	0	3; 4; 5; 8; 9
07.88	Art	Federal Art Project	Copy of original sketch to be used in the Canal Street branch of the New Orleans Public Library.	7/25/1940	2	1	2
07.89	Art	Federal Art Project	Chiseling figures on wall of tropical bird house, Audubon Park Zoo.	7/21/1939	2	2	2
07.90	Art	Federal Art Project	Chiseling figures on bird house, Audubon Park Zoo.	8/1/1939	3	1	1; 2
07.91	Art	Federal Art Project	At the tropical bird house in Audubon Park, two WPA artists carved this procession of animals which stretches across the wall. This is a panorama view.	11/13/1940	2	0	2
07.92	Art	Federal Art Project	Two WPA artists have just completed work on the tropical bird house at Audubon Park. The scene depicts Noah leading the animals into the ark, two by two. The procession stretches across the wall and the carving was done directly in the brick.	11/13/1940	2	1 (also 1 with no negative)	1
07.93	Art	Federal Art Project	Art class conducted by WPA instructors for children at the Gentilly Terrace School. Click here for the names of the children and teacher in the photographs.	7/23/1940	7	4	1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7

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