Wednesday, December 5, 2018

New Deal Art: "Perilous Merry-Go-Round"

Above: "Perilous Merry-Go-Round," a lithograph by Jack Markow (1905-1983), created while he was the WPA's Federal Art Project, 1937. According to his Wikipedia page, Markow was a cartoonist whose work appeared in "books, greeting cards, calendars, advertising campaigns and major magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post and The New Yorker." Image courtesy of the General Services Administration and the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

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