New Deal Sports & Recreation Art (6/10): "A Stick Race"

Above: "A Stick Race," a water color painting by Jose Rey Toledo (1915-1994), created while he was in the WPA, ca. 1935-1940. Toledo taught art at several schools and colleges, including the University of New Mexico. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Above: "The Bow and Arrow Dance," another WPA painting by Toledo, 1940. Toledo was "an Indian artist who captured the essence of tribal dances on canvas and was a cultural traditionalist and environmentalist" ("Jose Rey Toledo, Indian Painter, 78," New York Times, April 9, 1994). Image courtesy of the General Services Administration and the University of Arizona Museum of Art.