Saturday, December 23, 2017

A New Deal Winter & Christmas: "Christmas Program"

Above: "Christmas Program," a lithograph by Anne Michalov (1904-2001), created while she was in the WPA, ca. 1935-1942. Michalov was known for her lithography, taught art at Hull House (a settlement house in Chicago), and married Charles Johnson, also an artist. Charles worked for the U.S. Forestry Service and the Bonneville Power Administration. The two settled in Oregon, and a 1951 newspaper article reported that they lived "near Portland in a rambling old house of 15 rooms, set in the middle of five acres of land. Here they maintain a studio... in their spare time the couple are remodeling the house..." (announcements section of the Daily Capital Journal (Salem, Oregon), October 27, 1951; also see "Oils, Watercolors Are In Exhibit," Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon), October 28, 1951). Image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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