Box 2
Container
Contains 6 Results:
Works Progress Administration Era Sculpture from the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project and the Treasury Programs, circa 1970s
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1-5
Identifier: 3
Overview
Four folders of photographs accompanying the bound manuscript illustrate chapters on "Traditional Sculpture" (such as Paul Manship and William McVey), "Art Deco Sculpture" (Benjamin Bufano, William Zorach and others), "New Opportunities" (Isamu Noguchi, Chaim Gross and others), and "Abstract Sculpture" (David Smith, Jose de Rivera, and Ibram Lassaw).
Dates:
circa 1970s
Seven American Women: The Depression Decade, exhibition catalog from the Vassar College Art Gallery, 1976
File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Identifier: 4
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The collection consists of research materials such as correspondence, photographic documentation, and ephemera relating to Eleanor M. Carr's writings on federal support for American sculpture in the 1930s and 1940s. Carr's research includes New Deal programs such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Federal Project Number One and its various components. The bulk of the materials relate to three main writings by Carr: "A Study of Federal Relief to the Sculptors on the...
Dates:
1976
Fine Arts and the People, conference report on the New Deal Cultural Projects held at the Hollybush Conference Center, Glassboro State College, 1975
File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Identifier: 4
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The collection consists of research materials such as correspondence, photographic documentation, and ephemera relating to Eleanor M. Carr's writings on federal support for American sculpture in the 1930s and 1940s. Carr's research includes New Deal programs such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Federal Project Number One and its various components. The bulk of the materials relate to three main writings by Carr: "A Study of Federal Relief to the Sculptors on the...
Dates:
1975
Government Aid During the Depression to Professional, Technical and Other Service Workers by Works Progress Administration, 1936
File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Identifier: 4
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The collection consists of research materials such as correspondence, photographic documentation, and ephemera relating to Eleanor M. Carr's writings on federal support for American sculpture in the 1930s and 1940s. Carr's research includes New Deal programs such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Federal Project Number One and its various components. The bulk of the materials relate to three main writings by Carr: "A Study of Federal Relief to the Sculptors on the...
Dates:
1936
Federal projects, black and white slides, circa 1930s
File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Identifier: 5
Overview
Seventy-eight black and white slides from the 1930s documenting murals, exhibits, and performances associated with the Federal Theatre Project, Federal Music Project, Federal Art Project, and Federal Writer's Project.
Dates:
circa 1930s
WPA and FAP sculpture, color slides, undated
File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Identifier: 5
Overview
Fifty-eight color slides created by Eleanor Carr show WPA/FAP sculptures in situ primarily of works by Beniamino Bufano, Patrocino Barela, and Sargent Johnson.
Dates:
undated