Federal travel posters designed in the Depression-era pop up as the 18th-century building gears up for big anniversaries. "Places for the People: WPA Travel Posters," at Carpenters' Hall celebrates ...

Of the over 225,000 artworks produced under the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, many have been lost over the years, scattered to the winds. Now the government is making progress in ...

Federal agents are hunting for historic paintings produced by Americans during the Works Progress Administration, the landmark Great Depression program to support destitute artists. A review by the ...

Helicline Fine Art will debut at The Salon: Art + Design at the Park Avenue Armory, November 6–10, 2025, presenting rare works from its 1939 World’s Fair and WPA-era collections. The exhibition, ...

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. In 1932, ...

Last spring, Michael Shefcik was watching an episode of “Antiques Roadshow,” the PBS series where hopeful owners of mystery art and antiques consult experts on whether it’s treasure or trash. The ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Places for the People: WPA Travel Posters is a collection of works created by artists in the 1930s as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration ...

The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) or WPA was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people ...

They're priceless and a part of American history, but most have disappeared. American artists produced about 200,000 paintings during the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a government program that ...

Federal agents have recently recovered dozens of lost historic art pieces ordered and funded by the U.S. government during the Great Depression. Investigators with the Inspector General’s office of ...

As president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt enlisted the United States in a massive course of self-betterment. Among the most obvious components of this effort were the infrastructure projects of the ...