New Deal Art: "The Skiers," by Arthur Kerrick

Above: "The Skiers," a color lithograph by Arthur Kerrick (1901-1960), created while he was in the WPA, 1941. Kerrick served in the Navy during World War I, and then started a career in the arts, including teaching at the Minnetonka Art Center and the Walker Art Center (both in Minnesota). The website askART notes that "Kerrick was employed on one of the more unusual tasks of the WPA. In 1937, he and eleven other artists from across the US were sent to the Alaska territory by the project to paint the wilderness landscapes characteristic of the area." Today, you can see some of those paintings on the websites of the General Services Administration and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Image courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society.