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 ...

Other important sub-categories are Works Progress Administration paintings, book multiples, contemporary American ceramics, contemporary outdoor sculpture and works by SUNY emeritus and current ...

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.

From “Brains in Washington,” which appeared in the March 1936 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year ...

On April 8, 1935, Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the work relief bill that funded the Works Progress Administration. Created by President Franklin Roosevelt to ...