Lohman, Meisha. "Treasures from the Basement: A WPA Art Discovery,"
Heritage, Vol. 11, No. 3. Spring 1995.
Marling, Karal Ann. Wall-to-Wall America: A Cultural History
of Post Office Murals in the Great Depression. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1982.
McKinzie, Richard. The New Deal for Artists. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1973.
O'Connor, Francis V., ed. Art for the Millions; Essays
from the 1930's by Artists and Administrators of the WPA Federal
Art Project. Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society,
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O'Connor, Francis V., ed. The New Deal Art Projects; An
Anthology of Memoirs. Washington: Smithsonian Institution,
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Park, Marlene and Gerald Markowitz. Democratic Vistas:
Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1984.
Park, Marlene and Gerald Markowitz. New Deal for Art: The
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Online
Resources:
http://www.ashfield.com/mural.html This is within the website of Ashfield & Co., Inc., a San
Francisco investment firm, and it displays and interprets a 1934 mural
produced under the Public Works of Art Project.
http://newdeal.feri.org/ndart This is the website of the New Deal Network, managed by the Franklin
and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. Included here is the full text of
New Deal for Art:The Government Art Projects of the 1930s with Examples
from New York City and State, by Marlene Park and Gerald Markowitz.
http://www.newdeallegacy.org/ This is the website of the National New Deal Preservation Association.
Within the section on Art Projects are an overview of the Federal
Programs, recommended titles, and links to other websites.
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/newdeal/newdeal.html This is within the website of the National Archives and Records
Administration and it includes a brief description of New Deal Art
Projects as well as a number of New Deal Art images.
http://www.wwcd.org/policy/US/newdeal.html This essay, entitled New Deal Cultural Programs: Experiments in
Cultural Democracy, presents a good overview of the programs dedicated
to delivering the arts to the American people in that era.
