Word: holger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PWAP was succeeded by three other alphabetical arrangements for the relief of artists. Their main object has been the mural decoration of public buildings completed under the New Deal throughout the land. As part of the vast WPA appropriation, Director Holger Cahill, who was 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...
...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...
...Lowell House "Chronicle," a year book published in 1932-33 by Holger B. Jansonn '33, will soon be on exhibition in the House library. This book is the first of its kinds in the University, and is unique for that reason...
...general public had some difficulty in getting into New York's newest art rooms last week, the American Folk Art Gallery. The A. F. A. G.'s mission, say its promoters, is to exhibit and sell American Primitives. Connected with the enterprise as an adviser is little, round Holger Cahill, onetime press-agent and at present consultant for the Newark Museum...
Within one week after they flew the Atlantic to Germany and Denmark in the Bellanca Liberty, the names of Pilot Holger Hoiriis and Passenger Otto Hillig could scarcely be found in U. S. newspapers. Their momentary flame of fame had been blown out by the propeller blast of the glorious Winnie Mae (see col. i). Here & there little two-paragraph despatches told of their jaunt from Copenhagen back into Germany, where Mr. Hillig became king for a day to the 300 inhabitants of his native Steinbrucken, whence he emigrated to the U. S. 40 years ago. There he shook hands...