| Sponsored by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation,
American Express Company, and The Bay and Paul Foundations.
Also supported by New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate
of the National Endowment for the Humanities |
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Bring Your Class!
In
1935, in response to the high level of unemployment brought
on by the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt
created the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Over the
next eight years the Federal Art Project (FAP) division of
the WPA employed more than 5,000 artists.
On view for the first time in more than 50 years, NEW DEAL,
NEW YORK: Prints and Paintings from the Queens Library Collection,
presents newly conserved works on paper and paintings from
the FAP in New York City.
Learn about both art history and the social history of the
New Deal era, then take a photographic tour of art in Queens
through archival and contemporary photographs of murals, reliefs
and sculptures across the borough.
Join us to learn more about this unique period of time in
which art making and government reform came together to sustain
lives and created an exciting visual record of an era.
To
schedule a free tour and activity please call 1.718.990.8665
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