Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once on the staff of the Newark Museum, got $3,000,000 with which to employ about 5,000 artists, 90% of whom must be on relief rolls, at wages of from $69 to $105 a month. Simultaneously the Treasury Department quietly set up the first permanent Federal art department in the Section of Painting & Sculpture, which is not a relief project at all. Its jury may commission artists, no matter what their state of affluence, to decorate public buildings on the strength of anonymously contributed sketches...
...main point is relief," explained Critic Forbes Watson, a member of the jury. "Our's is art...
...Art Director Holger Cahill of the Works Progress Administration announced last week that 4,300 muralists, portrait painters, print makers, sculptors, etc. are now at work under his direction on 327 projects that will cost the Government $3,000,000. The Government has set up free art schools in New York City, Nashville, Raleigh, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Gainesville and Dade City, Fla., Columbus, Grand Rapids, Elizabeth and Newark, N. J., has opened art galleries in New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Florida, Virginia...
Today there exist the greatest official interest in art, the greatest production of paintings the U. S. has ever known. A century hence students of U. S. art in the early 1930's will probably write in their notebooks two facts: 1) It was largely a mural art; 2) It was a State-inspired art, born of Depression, fostered by the New Deal...
President Roosevelt favored the idea, referred it promptly to the Treasury. From this letter grew the first organization to assist unemployed artists, the Public Works of Art Project. Its guiding spirit was not George Biddle but his good friend Painter Edward Bruce, onetime San Francisco banker (TIME, July 17, 1933). Many murals were started under PWAP, but for the most part artists were told to go home and paint what they liked in their own studios. PWAP lasted about six months, cost the Government $1,312,177, produced 15,663 works of art, ended with a gigantic exhibition in Washington...