Women, Art and the New Deal

by Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene

In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American artists through the Works Progress Administration--fiction writers, photographers, poster artists, dramatists, painters, sculptors, muralists, wood carvers, composers and choreographers, as well as journalists, historians and researchers. Secretary of Commerce and supervisor of the WPA Harry Hopkins hailed it a "renascence of the arts, if we can call it a rebirth when...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476662975
• ISBN13: 9781476662978
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher