The posters of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) inspired Americans in the 1930s and '40s—and 81 years later, their charm appeals to a new generation of Americans, particularly on Pinterest.

WPA art-restoration project chronicled . F.N. D'ALESSIO Associated Press Feb 1, 2003 ... and some from the Works Progress Administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.

But when we turn that same critical gaze upon the paintings produced in 1930s America for the New Deal projects, it is inescapable that many of the murals produced under the Public Works of Art ...

The Recovery Act was actually modeled after the WPA, which put Americans back to work after the Great Depression on projects like the Hoover Dam that defined an entire era of water management and ...

The New Deal had lasting impacts on NYC. From tunnels to schools and murals, here are maps of many of the New Deal project locations in each NYC borough.

In "WPA Buildings: Architecture and Art of the New Deal" (Schiffer Publishing, hardcover, 160 pages), Maresca explores the social impact of these imposing government buildings in cities large and ...

"The Works Progress Administration and the Rural Electrification Administration" was the second in the series of public forums, "1935 and the Enduring New Deal," held in honor of the 75th ...

LONG BEACH (CBS) — Yes, everything old is new again. Some artworks dating back to the formation of the New Deal's (that's FDR for you youngin's) Works Progress Administration (WPA) are on ...

More than 300 WPA projects transformed Western New ... Project, there was art ... "I tell students that so much of the basic infrastructure of our daily lives was created during the New Deal's WPA ...