Chicago and New Deal Art
Center for New Deal Studies

Sources from the Center for New Deal Studies

General:

Dows, Olin. The New Deal’s Treasury Art Programs: A Memoir.

Fowler, Harriet. New Deal Art

Garbrick, Robert, Barbara Markham and James Curtis. “The Great Depression and the Arts: A Unit of Study for Grades 8-12” (OAH and National Center for History in the Schools, 1998). Link: http://www.newdeal.feri.org/nchs/

Harris, Jonathan. Federal Art and National Culture: The Politics of Identity in New Deal America.

Kalfatovic, Martin. The New Deal’s Fine Arts Projects: A Bibliography, 1933-1992.

McDonald, William F. Federal Relief Administration and the Arts: The Origins and Administration of the Arts Projects of the WPA.

McKinzie. The New Deal for Artists.

Marling, Karal Ann. Wall-to-Wall America: A Cultural History of Post-Office Murals in the Great Depression.

Mavigliano, George J. and Richard A. Lawson. Federal Art Project in Illinois, 1935-1943.

O’Connor, Francis. Art for the Millions.

O’Connor, Francis. The New Deal Art Projects: An Anthology of Memoirs.

Park, Marlene and Gerald Markowitz. Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal.

Park, Marlene and Gerald Markowitz. New Deal for Art.

Wooden, Howard E. American Art of the Great Depression.

Images & Artists:

Alone in the Crowd: Prints of the 1930s-1940s by African-American Artists

Baigell, Matthew. The American Scene: American Paintings of the 1930s.

Caro, Julie Levin. Allan Rohan Crite: Artist Reporter of the African American Community.

DeNoon, Christopher. Posters of the WPA.

Harrison, Helen and Lucy Lippard. Women Artists of the New Deal Era: A Selection of Prints and Drawings.

King-Hammond, Leslie. Black Printmakers and the WPA.

New York/Chicago: WPA and the Black Artist.

Painting America: Mural Art in the New Deal Era.

Soby, James Thrall. Ben Shahn: Paintings.
______. Ben Shahn: Graphic Arts.

Unbroken Circle: Exhibition of African-American Artists of the 1930s and 1940s.

Chicago:
Becker, Heather. Art for the People: The Rediscovery and Preservation of Progressive and WPA-Era Murals in the Chicago Public Schools, 1904-1943.

Gambone, Robert. Art and Popular Religion in Evangelical America, 1914-1940.

Long, Franklin. Confessions of a Depression Muralist.

Other Region-Specific Sources:

Phagan, Patricia. The American Scene and the South: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1930-1946.

South Carolina State Museum. New Deal Art in South Carolina.

Stewart, Rick. Lone Star Regionalism: The Dallas Nine and their Circle, 1928-45.

Wisconsin’s New Deal Art

Other institutional resources:

Art Institute of Chicago, Marvin A. Ryerson Library
Chicago Historical Society
Chicago Public Library
Illinois State Archives
Illinois State Museum

World Wide Web Links:

Art Institute of Chicago: Chicago The City in Art
http://www.artic.edu/aic/students/mural_project/index.html
Glossary of terms: http://www.artic.edu/aic/students/mural_project/pages/M_glossary.html

Chicago Mural Conservation
http://www.chicagoconservation.com/pages/murals_cps.htm

Chicago Parks: WPA Art
http://www.wpamurals.com/chiparks.htm

Coit Tower Murals (PWAP)
http://www.coittower.org/

The Depression Era Art Project in Illinois (PDF File)
http://www.chicagoconservation.com/news_pdf/depress_era_mural.pdf

American Life Histories, FWP, 1936-1940 (Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

New Deal Art (New Deal Network and Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute)
http://www.newdeal.feri.org/library/index.htm#2

The Great Depression and the Arts (Organization of American Historians and New Deal Network)
http://www.newdeal.feri.org/nchs/

WPA African American Artists (Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam012.html

For general links to New Deal and Roosevelt related sites, see the Center for New Deal Studies links webpage.