CHICAGO - When Flora Doody called an art-restoration expert to look at some deteriorat-ing murals at Chicago's Lane Technical High School in 1994, the teacher didn't expect to set off a treasure hunt.

Federal travel posters designed in the Depression-era pop up as the 18th-century building gears up for big anniversaries. "Places for the People: WPA Travel Posters," at Carpenters' Hall celebrates ...

WASHINGTON — When President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration launched a project to illustrate American folk art, it ended up with 18,527 watercolors of quilts, weather vanes, old ...

If laughter is the best medicine, what do you say in an unemployment line? The plump, frolicking fantasies of Francois Boucher in "La volupte du gout," the Portland Art Museum's big new exhibition of ...

137 b&w photographs compiled by Ferdinand Perret relating to the WPA Southern California Art Project. Depicted are the WPA-FAP Print Department, Los Angeles; Canoga Park petrachrome in progress, 1940; ...

WPA poster for the Second Annual Exhibition of the Sioux City Camera Club (1939), Iowa Federal Art Project, silkscreen (all images via Work Projects Administration Poster Collection of the Library of ...

“Federal Art Project NYC WPA.” now at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. Week 13 recap: Chicago Bears get a Tush Push takeaway in 24-15 win in Philadelphia — their 9th in 10 games ...

The WPA Art Project pointed proudly last week at one of the few first-rate talents it has dug up: shy, 36-year-old, Moscow-born Muralist Anton Refregier, who won one of the biggest awards ever offered ...

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