#TheNewDeal’s
#AUTUMN & the #PublicWorksOfArtProject
‘Autumn Fields’
Edward Bruce (1879-1943), who himself headed #theNewDeal’s #PWAP, The #TreasurySection of Painting & Sculpture & the Treasury Relief Art project #TRAP. Oil on canvas #SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum.
#AmericanArt #EdwardBruce
October 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
#WorldBookDay
#Posters promoting #Books from #TheNewDeal’s #WPA #FederalWritersProject
‘Illinois: A descriptive and historical guide’ WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1940]
April 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
#WorldBookDay
#Posters promoting #Books from #TheNewDeal’s #WPA #FederalWritersProject
‘A Guide to the Golden State California. From the Past to the Present. History and Culture - Tours and Trails - Recreational Facilities. American Guide Series.'
#WPAFederalArtProject N.Y.C.
April 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#WorldBookDay
#Posters promoting #Books from #TheNewDeal’s #WPA #FederalWritersProject
‘Cavalcade of the American Negro - The story of the Negro's progress during 75 years, compiled by the Illinois Writers' Project’ Color silkscreen by #SaraCleo. Chicago, WPA Art Project, 1940.
April 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
#OTD in 1935
‘Road construction on Division Street, #Tukwila, January 3, 1935’
One of the innumerable road construction & improvement projects of #theNewDeal’s 1st work relief program, the #FERA #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration, in Washington State
#blackandwhitephotography
January 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
#OTD in 1934
‘Street railroad concrete slabs being set on Western Avenue, Seattle, November 5, 1934’
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One of the many road construction & improvement projects of #theNewDeal’s first work relief program, the #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration (#FERA), in Washington State.
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
#WorldBookDay
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#Books from #TheNewDeal’s #WPA #FederalWritersProject, whose most ambitious undertaking was the #AmericanGuide Series
April 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
#OTD in 1935
‘Mudslide prevention work damaged near Madrona Drive, #Seattle, March 13, 1935’
One of the innumerable road construction & maintenance projects of #TheNewDeal’s first work relief program, the #FERA. #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration
March 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
#WorldBookDay
#Posters promoting #Books from #TheNewDeal’s #WPA #FederalWritersProject
‘Who's who in the zoo - Illustrated natural history prepared by the WPA Federal Writers Project: On sale at all book stores, zoos, and museums. NYC, Federal Art Project, [1936 or 1937].
April 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
#TheNewDeal’s Treasury Relief Art Program (#TRAP) commissioned him to paint the murals in the rotunda of the U.S. Customs House in New York (1936-1937).
👉ALT
@LivingNewDeal
#ReginaldMarsh #AmericanArt #USCustomsHouse #Manhattan
April 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
#OTD in 1934
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‘Salmon Bay Bridge newly built, Seattle, December 31, 1934’
One of the many projects building or improving #infrastructure of #theNewDeal’s first work relief program, the #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration (#FERA), in Washington State.
December 31, 2024 at 3:04 PM
#OTD in 1934
‘Water pipe installation crew working in Kirkland, August 1, 1934’
One of many water and #sanitation projects of #theNewDeal’s #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration (#FERA)
#WashingtonState #KirklandWA
August 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
#PRIDEMONTH
#Pride prehistory 1934
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‘The Fleet’s In!’ #PaulCadmus (1904-1999)
Painted for the #PublicWorksofArtProject #theNewDeal’s first work relief program for artists, (12/33-6/34), it was destined for the #PWAP exhibition at DC’s #CorcoranGallery - and for controversy.
June 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In May-#JUNE 1942
#Greenbelt, #Maryland, the first new town planned by #theNewDeal’s #ResettlementAdministration, #SuburbanResettlement Division.
Pedestrian underpass and apartment houses.
Photograph by #MarjoryCollins (1912-1985). May-June 1942.
@livingnewdeal.bsky.social
June 17, 2026 at 1:51 PM
#OTD in 1934
‘First slab of Seattle Central Waterfront seawall being placed’, one of the particularly challenging infrastructure projects undertaken through #TheNewDeal’s first work relief program, the #FERA, #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration.
15 May 1934
May 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
‘Festival’ Daniel Celentano (1902-1980) #TheNewDeal’s Public Works of Art Project #PWAP 1934
The Gashouse District along the East River was home to the least affluent, mainly recent immigrants, as the gas plants leaked noxious fumes.
#AmericanArt #DanielCelentano
March 24, 2026 at 12:47 PM
‘Festival’ Daniel Celentano (1902-1980) #TheNewDeal’s Public Works of Art Project #PWAP 1934
The Gashouse District along the East River was home to the least affluent, mainly recent immigrants, as the gas plants leaked noxious fumes.
#AmericanArt #DanielCelentano
March 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
#PRIDEMONTH
#Pride prehistory 1934
‘The Fleet’s In!’ #PaulCadmus (1904-1999)
Painted for the #PublicWorksofArtProject #theNewDeal’s first work relief program for artists, (12/33-6/34), it was destined for the #PWAP exhibition at DC’s #CorcoranGallery - and for controversy.
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June 12, 2026 at 2:11 PM
*The (New) Masses* - & other left-wing periodicals - on a newsstand in 2 details from ‘City Life’, fresco in Coit Tower, San Francisco, by Victor Arnautoff, a student of Diego Rivera, part of a vast cycle commissioned by #TheNewDeal’s #PublicWorksofArtProject (#PWAP). 1934.
June 23, 2026 at 12:49 PM
#JUNE 1935
‘I think I’ll plow under every third parsnip.’ Cartoon by George Shellhase, (the old) *Life* magazine. Through #TheNewDeal’s Agricultural Adjustment Administration #AAA, beginning in 1933, the government sought to curb overproduction & ruinous (for farmers) deflation➡️
June 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
#PRIDEMONTH
#Pride prehistory 1934
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‘The Fleet’s In!’ #PaulCadmus (1904-1999)
Painted for the #PublicWorksofArtProject #theNewDeal’s first work relief program for artists, (12/33-6/34), it was destined for the #PWAP exhibition at DC’s #CorcoranGallery - and for controversy.
June 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
#OTD – Jan. 16 - in 1938
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Aerial view of a part of #Greenhills, #Ohio, 1 of 3 model satellite towns planned & being built by the #theNewDeal’s #ResettlementAdministration (Suburban Resettlement Division) to give non-affluent inhabitants the benefits of ready access to an ➡️
January 16, 2026 at 3:12 PM
In #NOVEMBER 1937
Completed for #theNewDeal’s Treasury Section of Painting & Sculpture at the Dept. of Justice Blg. in Washington in 1936-1937, Boardman Robinson (1876–1952) painted an enormous set of 18 tempera murals “Great Events and Figures of Law”
👇🧵 MORE Events & Figures:
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#OTD in 1935
‘Mudslide prevention work damaged near Madrona Drive, #Seattle, March 13, 1935’
One of the innumerable road construction & maintenance projects of #TheNewDeal’s first work relief program, the #FERA. #FederalEmergencyReliefAdministration
March 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
#WorldBookDay
#Posters promoting #Books from #TheNewDeal’s #WPA #FederalWritersProject
‘Birds of the world - An illustrated natural history in popular style with 100 candid photos’
N.Y.C., WPA Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1939].
April 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM