#wpa mural

[circuitmouse]

WPA Murals

#wpa #coit tower #murals

[pwlanier]

The Art and World of Luis Quintanilla. This retrospective web gallery features selections from the life’s work of the Spanish artist, Luis Quintanilla. (1893-1978) As organized and arranged by the artist's son, Paul Quintanilla.

He was to paint one more major ensemble of frescoes. From September 1940 until June of '41 he was the "artist in residence" of the University of Kansas City, in Kansas City, Missouri. Here he painted six large panels, covering 375 square feet of wall space, in the Language Arts Building, which depict Don Quixote in the modern world. These are located in Haag Hall at the University of Missouri.

The Bitter Moral

After seeing Sancho and the Don in their ideal worlds we see them in the world of modern reality. Against his wishes Sancho becomes the governor of an island. And in what may be the best conceived panel of the six he is portrayed as he governs. Here we see common grotesques, faces known to all of us, humanity at its worst as we see it daily on the streets, on the job, in the news everyday and on TV. "He [Sancho] proves himself just, the friend of the weak and oppressed. He unmasks fraud, interprets the laws wisely, although he can't read them. Guileless of pride and greed, he governs with such peasant honesty that his people fail to understand him, cause uprisings, turmoil, criticism. They laugh behind his back and carry him in effigy. When he resigns, they come to appreciate him, but at this moment the bitter moral seems to be that nothing prospers save folly."

#wpa #mural #don quixote

[rgf-wallsplus]

Philip Guston, mural for the WPA Federal Art Project, 1939 New York World's Fair: 1) Photo by David Robbins, c/o Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; 2) photo c/o © The Estate of Philip Guston; 3) installation photo via zeteojournal.com.

#guston #philipguston #philip guston #mural #wpa #1939

[historysisco]

I recently went back to the Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport and got to see the famed Flight Mural.

Painted by James Brooks from 1938 -1942, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) funded project measures 237 feet long by 12 feet high and encloses the interior of the terminal.

The images depict the history of flight from the mythological story of Icarus and Daedalus to ideas of early flight of DaVinci, the Wright Brothers "Kitty Hawk", early flight to the era of the flying boats. The first seaplane to commence operations at the Marine Air Terminal (MAT): the Pan Am Boeing 314 aka the “Yankee Clipper.”

In a moment of disbelief, during the red scare of the 1950s, the mural was painted over in 1952. The mural was believed to have a socialist view and it was covered up an attempt to modernize the MAT. Luckily someone had the foresight to coat the mural in a lacquer. The painting was rediscovered in the 1970s. After funds were raised, the mural renovated in the 1980s with the MAT being designated a New York Interior Landmark. It is also listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

#JamesBrooks #Flight #FlightMural  #WorksProgressAdministration #WPA #LaGuardiaAirport #MarineAirTerminal #MAT #ArtDeco #ArtDecoHistory #ArtHistory #SocialistRealism #AviationHistory #History #Historia #Histoire #Geschichte #HistorySisco

#James Brooks #Flight #Flight Mural #Works Progress Administration #WPA #LaGuardia Airport #Marine Air Terminal #MAT #Art Deco #Art Deco History #Art History #Socialist Realism #Aviation History #History #Historia #Histoire #HistorySisco

[ajl1963]

Deco Doings - January, 2024

Winter by William Welsh, 1931. Image from Pinterest. Here is a list of events to start off 2024 in a very “Deco way”. Poster House Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde (In Person Event)      Thursday, September 28, 2023 – Sunday, February 25, 2023, Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY   New York Adventure Club WPA Murals of the New Deal, Part 1: American Regionalism (Online…

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#1939 New York World&039;s Fair #Art Deco Posters #Art Deco Society of New York #Art Deco Society of the UK #Art Deco Weekend #Fashion Institute of Technology #Lizzy & the Triggermen #Miami Preservation League #New York Adventure Club #Phoenix Art Deco Society #Poster House #Radio City Music Hall #Tamara de Lempicka #Texas Art Deco #WPA Murals

[followjacobbarlow]

Western Town

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#Helper #Murals #New Deal Funded #Post Offices #utah #WPA

[ex-frat-man]

Paul Cadmus - American, 1904-1999 - Male Nude (NM 102), 1966

Signed Cadmus (ur); inscribed Male Nude #NM 102; inscribed indistinctly at lower left edge

Watercolor with crayon heightened with white on toned paper 17 5/8 x 23 inches

Paul Cadmus was an American painter, best known for his stylized, high-contrast renderings of male nudes and portraits. In his elegant tempura paintings, Cadmus emphasizes his subjects’ musculature in a style akin to Magical Realism, offering a level of intricate detail beyond observable life. Born on December 17, 1904, in New York, NY, he studied at the Art Students League in 1928 and thereafter worked in field commercial illustration, eventually receiving commissions in 1933 from the New Deal art program and going on to create mural paintings in post offices and other government offices. One of his earliest and most important works was The Fleets In!, a 1934 commission by the Public Works of Art Project of the WPA, wherein he painted a series of portraits of sailors on leave which controversially included a homosexual couple. His work garnered him both critical and commercial success, and he died in Connecticut on December 12, 1999. Cadmus has been featured in numerous important museum exhibitions, including the Whitney Museum in New York in 1996.

#fine art #cadmus #paul cadmus

[newyorkthegoldenage]

In 1937, the WPA's Federal Art Project commissioned Japanese-American artist Eitaro Ishigaki to paint two murals for the Harlem Courthouse. It was part of an ambitious project for murals all over the city; in the end, there were about 400 designs, although many were never painted.

Ishigaki's murals, American Independence (above) and Emancipation, received a hostile reception in the community. In 1938 the City Council branded them "offensive" and removed them. (That may be some Council members taking notes, above, March 31, 1938.) It's unclear whether they were preserved.

Other Harlem murals included work by African-American artists.

Top photo: Associated Press via Shutterstock Bottom photo: Smithsonian Institution

#vintage New York #vintage Harlem #1930s #Eitaro Ishigaki #Harlem Courthouse #Federal Art Project #public art #Work Progress Administration #murals #art #art history #Harlem murals #Federal Art Project murals #art controversies #March 31 #31 March #Mar. 31

[ratatoskryggdrasil]

Lew Keller, Grape Pickers, WPA mural, St. Helena, CA Post Office, 1942 and detail

#Lew Keller #mural #painting #farmers #detail

[mapsontheweb]

38,000,000 Escaped - 10,000,000 Died

An unusual map supporting the fundraising efforts of Russian War Relief, Inc., an organization established after the Nazi invasion of Russia in 1941 to help the millions of refugees displaced within Russia by the invasion. The map of Russia has been reversed ("to compare the industrial west of Russia with the similar eastern area of the United States"): the Ukraine covers the eastern U.S., Moscow is near Detroit, and the Causcasus are in Oklahoma. The areas in grey were "occupied by the Nazis at the peak of the invasion." The capitol in Washington is burning, and the Nazi flag flies atop the Empire State Building. Other highlighted areas represent "giant industrial and agricultural communities" relocated to remote areas of Russia, e.g., Novosibirsk (Boise), Omsk (Salt Lake City) and Tashkent (Phoenix).

The map is undated, but because the text below the map says that "some of the survivors now are returning to homes recaptured by the Red Army," this map was probably produced after the Soviet victory at Stalingrad in 1943. The artist Elliott Anderson Means was raised in Texas, became an itinerant sign and mural painter in California, then studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles and the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. He settled in New York, where he was a WPA artist in the 1930s; he created at least one other poster for Russian War Relief, "Help Put Him Back in Our Fight."

#maps #world war 2 #operation barbarossa #1943 #russia

[abwwia]

Elba Lightfoot working on Mother Goose Rhymes, 1938 WPA mural at Harlem Hospital, New York, NY. From the collection of the Archives of American Art.

Elba Lightfoot (1906-1989) was an African-American artist known for her work on the Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals at Harlem Hospital. Via Wikipedia

[yugocar]

Employment and Activities poster for the Federal Art Project (November 1, 1936.)

"The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the largest of the New Deal art projects. It was created not as a cultural activity, but as a relief measure to employ artists and artisans to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photography, theatre scenic design, and arts and crafts. The WPA Federal Art Project established more than 100 community art centers throughout the country, researched and documented American design, commissioned a significant body of public art without restriction to content or subject matter, and sustained some 10,000 artists and craft workers during the Great Depression." (source)

#gen art tag #art history: usa #federal art project

[pwlanier]

The Art and World of Luis Quintanilla. This retrospective web gallery features selections from the life’s work of the Spanish artist, Luis Quintanilla. (1893-1978) As organized and arranged by the artist's son, Paul Quintanilla.

He was to paint one more major ensemble of frescoes. From September 1940 until June of '41 he was the "artist in residence" of the University of Kansas City, in Kansas City, Missouri. Here he painted six large panels, covering 375 square feet of wall space, in the Language Arts Building, which depict Don Quixote in the modern world. These are located in Haag Hall at the University of Missouri.

Sancho Panza

Sancho appears as a burly working man with a cigar held high up in his hand as he sits on his donkey, Dapple, with two obese peasant women looking on from a distance and the ground beneath Dapple's feet is covered with a harvest of good food.

#mural #don quixote #wpa

[sineala]

For whoever was asking a couple weeks ago about Steve painting murals before the serum, there’s more! And it’s not Nicieza! This is Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #7:

Later on in the issue, he actually mentions this to the president:

So, yeah, there you go. More of Steve painting murals for the WPA.

[Edited to correct the authorship: I initially misidentified this as Waid because the majority of Sentinel of Liberty is by Waid and the whole series is collected in the Waid Cap omni, but this particular story was written by Brian K. Vaughan. Sorry about that!]

#posts i actually wrote

[rabbitvintage]

Artist Jared French 1905 - 1988

U.S. Post Office Building, Plymouth: "Lunchtime with Early Miners" (1938) , painted the only nude in New Deal post office murals, despite warnings by government officials. Earlier versions included more nudity but was later changed due to pressure from the WPA Section Director. The finished painting did include a nude boatman in the back distance that "snuck by" because the final product was approved by review of an 8x10 photo.

Court House Annex, Richmond, VA "Cavalrymen Crossing a River" at (1939) painted in the first floor Post Office of the Courthouse Annex. Initially a few figures were intended to portray some nudity.

[fuckyeahdarcylewis]

Work in Progress

by PumpkinDoodles

“You didn’t tell me that Steve was dating Darcy Lewis,” Sharon said, feeling mildly annoyed. It wasn’t that she minded. She just hadn’t been prepared to see Steve be so damn cute. She didn’t think he’d been that fun with her—not that she wanted to see WPA murals. “That’s because Steve isn’t dating anyone,” Natasha said, “he just has a very good friend that he gets grilled cheese with and sometimes they wear matching shirts because they’re just friends.” Her voice was laced with sarcasm. She mimicked Steve’s voice. “You match with Clint sometimes, Tasha. We just both like plaid.” “So, you agree with me that they’re dating?” Sharon said. “There’s no point in arguing with Steve, he’s decided they aren’t,” she said. “You know how stubborn he is.”

Words: 941, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Darcy Lewis, Steve Rogers, Sharon Carter, Natasha Romanoff

Relationships: Darcy Lewis/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Idiots in Love

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#AO3 works tagged 'Darcy Lewis/Steve Rogers' #darcy lewis #steve rogers #darcy x steve #fanfictions