Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives. Roosevelt’s work-relief program ...

including pieces sponsored by the Depression-era Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program responsible for some of the nation’s most iconic images. Federal government watchdogs over the ...

Of greatest import and urgency are the pieces sponsored by the Works Progress Administration, a Depression-era New Deal programme that employed artisans to create public works through federal ...

It was not the PWAP but its better-known successor, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), that helped support the likes of young Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock before they became luminaries.

The agency has amassed thousands of historical artworks dating from 1850 onwards, including a selection of art commissioned by the Works Progress Administration, crucial documentarian photography ...