Related Resources

This section provides pointers to collections that have related or similar content to the Federal Art Project fine prints.

Collections that have content related to the Federal Art Project prints or that may have overlapping content are listed below.

Collections in the Prints & Photographs Division

Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photograph Collection (summary & search)
This online collection provides access to an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. The photographs were produced during the New Deal under the auspices of a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937), the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942).
Fine Prints Collections in the Library of Congress (research guide)
This guide provides an overview of all Prints & Photographs Division fine prints collections.
Fine Prints Filed by Artist Name in the Library of Congress (research guide)
This guide describes the portion of the Prints & Photographs fine print collections that is organized by artist name. The Federal Art Project prints are integrated into this filing series.
WPA Posters (summary & search)
This online collection provides access to 907 posters produced from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA and an overview of the collection and its background.

Collections in Other Divisions/Multiple Divisions

Amassing American "Stuff": The Library of Congress and the Federal Arts Project of the 1930s (article)
An overview by John Y. Cole based on files in the Library of Congress Archives and on the annual reports of the Librarian of Congress, 1936-41. The article, originally published in the Fall 1983 issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, accompanies the online Federal Theatre Project Collection. The final section of the article outlines the multiple WPA arts projects that came into the collections of the Library of Congress. .
Great Depression and New Deal: A General Resource Guide
This guide describes Library of Congress digital materials, external websites, and offers a print bibliography.
National Recovery Administration (NRA) and the New Deal: A Resource Guide
This guide provides print and electronic resources for researching the NRA and other related recovery efforts.

The listing below indicates institutions that have online content suggesting that they hold a substantial quantity of Federal Art Project prints or records that provide information about the project. Some exhibition catalogues and checklists listed in the "Published Sources" tab suggest additional institutions that may have Federal Art Project prints.

National Archives, Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922–1944 (search result)
This large body of records covers the many activities of the Work Projects Administration (and predecessor organizations), of which the Federal Art Project was one. The series "General Records, 1935-1939" provides general documentation of the Federal Art Project, and multiple series are retrieved when searching within the record group for "federal art project."
New York Public Library, Print Collection (search result) External
This search in the library's Prints & Photographs Online Catalog for wpa and printer or printmaker gives a sense of prints in the collection that were made by artists working for the WPA.
University of Michigan Museum of Art (search result) External

The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.

Overviews and Federal Art Project Publications

Art for the Millions by Francis V. O'Connor (Introduction by); Federal Art Project Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: N8838 .A77 1975
ISBN: 0821206591
Published/Created: 1975-01-01
Includes essays by Hymen Warsager, Elizabeth Olds, Russell T. Limbach, Fritz Eichenberg, Mabel Dwight, Anthony Velonis, and Eli Jacobi.
The New Deal Fine Arts Projects: A Bibliography, 1933-1992 by Martin R. Kalfatovic
Call Number: Z5961.U5 K36 1994 N8837
ISBN: 0810827492
Published/Created: 1994-08-01
This annotated bibliography gives a good summary of the New Deal arts projects and a detailed listing of monographs, periodical articles, dissertations, and exhibitions relating to the products of the projects. Most of the publications listed here were taken from entries in this bibliography that mentioned prints.
The New Deal for Artists by Richard D. McKinzie
Call Number: N8838 .M32
ISBN: 0691046131
Published/Created: 1973-06-21
Federal Art Project Manual by Federal Art Project.
Call Number: N6512 .F38
Published/Created: 1935
Pickaxe and Pencil by Marguerite D. Bloxom
Call Number: Z7164.P97 B58 1982 HD5713.6.U54
ISBN: 0844403849
Published/Created: 1982-01-01
Available in full text via HathiTrust.

Books, Exhibition Catalogs and Checklists

These resources may assist in researching and exploring the context of the images found in the Federal Art Project prints.

Black Printmakers and the W.P.A. : the Lehman College Art Gallery: February 23-June 6, 1989 by King-Hammond, Leslie
Call Number: NE539.3.A35 K56 1989
Published/Created: 1989
Exhibition of 52 prints by 20 artists.
Depression printmakers as Workers : Re-defining Traditional Interpretations by Francey, Mary F.
Call Number: NE508.3.S63 F73 1988
Published/Created: 1988
Exhibition featuring 50 prints, 23 artists.
Federal Art Project: NYC and WPA by Associated American Artists.
Published/Created: 1991
Exhibition of 76 prints.
The Federal Art Project: American Prints from the 1930s in the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art by Victoria W. Julius; Lauren Arnold (Editor); Evan M. Maurer (Preface by); Christine Ruby (Introduction by)
Call Number: NE508 .U65 1985 OVERFLOWJ34
ISBN: 0912303301
Published/Created: 1985-01-01
Phagan, Patricia E. "Images of the 1930s: WPA Prints." Bulletin of the Georgia Museum of Art 13 (Spring 1988): 1-32.
Exhibition checklist of 98 prints.
Prints for the People: Selections from New Deal Graphics Projects by National Collection of Fine Arts. Smithsonian Institution.
Published/Created: 1979
WPA Prints: Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, April 1-20, 1989
Published/Created: 1989
Exhibition of 77 prints.

Articles

Kiehl, David W. "American Printmaking in the 1930s: Some Observations." Print Quarterly 1 (June 1984): 96-100.
Call Number: NE1 .P757
Stretch, Bonnie Barrett. "American Art - a New Deal for WPA Prints," Portfolio - The Magazine of the Fine Arts 5 (May-June 1983):27.
Call Number: N1 .P79

Fine Prints by Federal Art Project Artists in the Library of Congress

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