The WPA (Works Progress Administration, renamed Works Projects Administration in 1939) was created as a New Deal program to employ the unemployed. The program also included many artists, in projects such as the one described in this poster. At one point, the WPA was the largest employer in the United States.
This poster advertises a 1938 art exhibit of women painters at the Federal Art Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts.
Poster for exhibition of WPA women painters,
Courtesy Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress)
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