Above: A scene from "Modern Florida," an artwork by Eduard Buk Ulreich (1889-1966), created while he was in the New Deal's Section of Fine Arts, ca. 1939-1943. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Above: Another scene from Ulreich's "Modern Florida."
Above: A WPA poster promoting hiking, created by artist Shari Weisberg. Little or no information seems to exist about Weisberg, but she may have been the daughter of Harry Weisberg (1867-1920) and Clara Weisberg (1877-1936), Jewish immigrants from Russia. In an obituary for Clara, her daughter Shari is shown to be living in Chicago, and the above poster was created as part of the WPA's Federal Art Project in Illinois, ca. 1936-1939 ("Mrs. Clara Weisberg," Wausau Daily Herald (Wausau, Wisconsin), July 20, 1936, p. 4). Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Above: A WPA poster created for the Food and Drug Administration, by an unknown artist in Ohio, 1940. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Above: A scene from "Contemporary Justice and Woman," a mural by Emil Bisttram (1895-1976), created while he was in the New Deal's Section of Fine Arts, ca. 1936. This mural is located in the Department of Justice Building in Washington, DC. Image courtesy of Carol M. Highsmith and the Library of Congress.
Above: "Girl with Roller Skates," a sculpture by Nathaniel Kaz (1917-2010), created while he was in the WPA, ca. 1935-1943. Image courtesy of the General Services Administration and the Brooklyn Museum.
Above: A woman volleyball player from the WPA poster, "Athletics." "Hazlett" seems to be the last name of the artist of this poster, but I can find no other information. More than a few New Deal artists have been lost in time, with little or no trace of them in Internet resources like Find-a-Grave, repository websites, online newspaper archives, or general Google searches. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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