14 results for: New Deal (1933-1939)
Oil painting, "Scraping and Painting" or "Chipping Rust," part of "Men Who Work the Ships" mural by Kenneth Callahan, 1936
Kenneth Callahan (1905-1986) was born in Spokane and lived in Seattle, becoming a nationally known artist, most celebrated for his murals. Self-taught as a painter and sculptor, he is best known as a leading figure in the Northwest School along with Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, and Guy Anderson. Commissioned in 1936 under the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP), Callahan painted…
ID Number:1963.3128.1
Date:1936
Oil painting, "Life Boat Drill," part of "Men Who Work the Ships" mural by Kenneth Callahan, 1936
Kenneth Callahan (1905-1986) was born in Spokane and lived in Seattle, becoming a nationally known artist, most celebrated for his murals. Self-taught as a painter and sculptor, he is best known as a leading figure in the Northwest School along with Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, and Guy Anderson. Commissioned in 1936 under the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP), Callahan painted…
ID Number:1963.3128.2
Date:1936
Oil painting, "Engine Room," part of "Men Who Work the Ships" mural by Kenneth Callahan, 1936
Kenneth Callahan (1905-1986) was born in Spokane and lived in Seattle, becoming a nationally known artist, most celebrated for his murals. Self-taught as a painter and sculptor, he is best known as a leading figure in the Northwest School along with Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, and Guy Anderson. Commissioned in 1936 under the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP), Callahan painted…
ID Number:1963.3128.3
Date:1936
Oil painting, "Hiring Hall," part of "Men Who Work the Ships" mural by Kenneth Callahan, 1936
Kenneth Callahan (1905-1986) was born in Spokane and lived in Seattle, becoming a nationally known artist, most celebrated for his murals. Self-taught as a painter and sculptor, he is best known as a leading figure in the Northwest School along with Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, and Guy Anderson. Commissioned in 1936 under the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP), Callahan painted…
ID Number:1963.3128.4
Date:1936
Oil painting, "Dock Scene," part of "Men Who Work the Ships" mural by Kenneth Callahan, 1936
Kenneth Callahan (1905-1986) was born in Spokane and lived in Seattle, becoming a nationally known artist, most celebrated for his murals. Self-taught as a painter and sculptor, he is best known as a leading figure in the Northwest School along with Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, and Guy Anderson. Commissioned in 1936 under the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP), Callahan painted…
ID Number:1963.3128.9
Date:1936
Oil painting, "Unloading," part of "Men Who Work the Ships" mural by Kenneth Callahan, 1936
Kenneth Callahan (1905-1986) was born in Spokane and lived in Seattle, becoming a nationally known artist, most celebrated for his murals. Self-taught as a painter and sculptor, he is best known as a leading figure in the Northwest School along with Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, and Guy Anderson. Commissioned in 1936 under the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP), Callahan painted…
ID Number:1963.3128.10
Date:1936
Oil painting, "Unloading 2," part of "Men Who Work the Ships" mural by Kenneth Callahan, 1936
Kenneth Callahan (1905-1986) was born in Spokane and lived in Seattle, becoming a nationally known artist, most celebrated for his murals. Self-taught as a painter and sculptor, he is best known as a leading figure in the Northwest School along with Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, and Guy Anderson. Commissioned in 1936 under the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP), Callahan painted…
ID Number:1963.3128.11
Date:1936
Painting of Mt. Index, by Eustace Ziegler, ca. 1934, with unfinished painting of Mt. McKinley and packhorses on verso
By the beginning of Great Depression, Eustace Ziegler (1881-1969) was an established and successful artist. In 1933, the US government launched an ambitious program of cultural aid including direct aid for artist hard hit by the depression. Ziegler had long advocated government funding for the arts and, in a show of support for the program, he donated this painting to…
ID Number:1966.3848.1
Date:1934
Pennant from the Civilian Conservation Corps, Company 2911, 1930s
Part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a government work relief program that employed about 3 million unmarried men age 18 to 25 from 1933 until 1942. Men volunteered for the program and served for a minimum of six months. They worked on jobs related to the conservation and development of natural…
ID Number:1981.7254.1
Date:Circa 1930
Painting, "Detail for West Seattle High School Mural," by Jacob Elshin, 1937
Jacob Elshin (1892 – 1976) was born in Russia in 1892, and moved to Seattle in 1923. When the federal government launched the Public Works of Art Project in 1933 to assist unemployed artists, Elshin was among the first to sign up. Over the course of his career, Elshin became well known for his paintings in oil and watercolor. His…
ID Number:2002.9.1
Date:1937