New Deal Art: The WPA Murals of Norwalk, CT
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Summary The Great Depression that struck the United States in the late 1920s came as a shock to millions of Americans. Almost overnight people saw their entire life savings vanish before their eyes and many were laid off by their employers. By the time Franklin Roosevelt took office in March 1933, the economic situation had become more severe.
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- The Great Depression that struck the United States in the late 1920s came as a shock to millions of Americans.
- The main subset of the WPA which provided work for struggling artists was the Federal Arts Project (FPA).
- These three cultural sources are reflected by the Depression art of a single town: Norwalk, CT
- Norwalk represented one of those towns that held out hope for a better tomorrow
- This theme was the most widespread in the art across the nation.
- Another set of murals I discovered in Norwalk are a set of four paintings by George Avison
- The town of Norwalk has one of the largest collections of existing WPA murals today.
- The murals of the Depression era completely changed the landscape of American art.
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