1934: A New Deal for Artists

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Author: Roger Kennedy and Ann Prentice WagnerCopublisher: D. Giles LimitedPublication Date: 2009Museum: SAAMPages: 156 pp.: ill. (55 color)ISBN: 978-1-904832-67-6Hardcover During the Great Depression, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised a “new deal for the American people,” initiating government programs to foster economic recovery. Roosevelt’s pledge to help “the forgotten man” also embraced America’s artists. The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) enlisted artists to capture “the American Scene” in…