Investing in Artists: Mystic and the WPA

Description

This fall, MMoA shines a spotlight on the historic Mystic artists who participated in FDR’s New Deal, creating paintings, prints, and murals for the Federal Art Project (FAP) as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1935-1943.

Featuring work by:

• Beatrice Lavis Cuming (1903-1974)
• Joseph Gualtieri (1916-2015)
• Herman Itchkawich (1907-1985)
• Walter Milton Killam (1907-1979)
• Nathaniel Stanton Little (1893-1971)
• Frank Jo Raymond (1907-1993)
• Y.E. Soderberg (1896-1972)
• Lars Thorsen (1876-1952)
• Stephen Jerome Hoxie (1895-1981)