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Indepth Arts News:
"Art in a Day's Work: Prints from the WPA"
2000-06-11 until 2000-09-24
Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore, MD,
USA
Bold images of factory and
construction workers, field workers,
and miners join the unemployed and
the down-and-out in this exhibition of
seventy prints produced during the
Depression years. The 57 artists who
made these prints were employed by
the Works Progress Administration
(WPA) during President Franklin
Roosevelt's New Deal. Many of the
artists worked together, teaching
each other new printmaking
techniques.
As a group, the prints encourage discussion of important issues such as fair
labor laws, substandard working conditions, and the debilitating effects of
unemployment.
The works on display are part of a collection of 1,000 WPA prints on extended loan to
the Museum from the U.S. General Services Administration. The exhibition is curated by
Cindy Medley Buckner, BMA Cataloguer for Prints, Drawings & Photographs, and marks
the completion of a major cataloguing project funded by the Dave H. and Reba W.
Williams Foundation.
IMAGE:
Men Digging.
Marian H. Simpson.
(c. 1936).
The United States General
Services Administration,
formerly Federal Works Agency,
Works Progress Administration,
on extended loan to The
Baltimore Museum of Art
(BMA L.1943.9.744).
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