Word: reliefs
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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...
...main point is relief," explained Critic Forbes Watson, a member of the jury...
...Treasury also operates the Ritz of relief projects for artists, known as the Treasury Relief Art Project. TRAP's director is Olin Dows, a bristle-haired young socialite painter from Duchess County, N. Y. He has been given $550,000 with which to provide jobs for no more than 400 artists from relief rolls, to be chosen for artistic ability alone. Already TRAP artists look down their noses at their WPA brethren...
...never decide whether he would rather paint pictures or turn and glaze pottery. For the Department of Justice last week he had nearly completed two knife-narrow panels showing a prisoner entering and being released from a Federal penitentiary. Possibly none of WPA's artists-on-relief could have handled so difficult a space problem so easily...
...need of relief is bullnecked, freckle-browed Reginald Marsh, whose two panels, one showing muscular workmen loading mail from spiral chutes to a waiting train, the other of an ocean liner transferring mail to a tender in New York harbor, were the first to be completed, set up and accepted in the new Washington Post Office Department Building in Washington...