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Artifact Road Trip - Missouri

This drawing was created by architect Barnard McMahon for the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), Region #7, St. Louis, Missouri.

Find out more about this Artifact Road Trip drawing on our Digital Artifact Collection: https://fdr.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/29527

Follow along each week as we feature a different artifact in our Museum Collection from each of the United States.

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Monday's image: June 26, 2017

Austin Mecklem, Engine House and Bunkers, Oil on canvas, 38 x 50.25 inches, 1934, Smithsonian American Art Museum (Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor), Washington, D.C.

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#SelfPortrait #MalvinGrayJohnson Malvin Gray Johnson was active during the heyday of the #HarlemRenaissance of the 1930s. The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of #AfricanAmerican #music, #dance, #art, #fashion, #literature, #theater, #politics, and scholarship centered in #Harlem (in #NewYorkCity). Johnson simplified the #forms of his #subjects and occasionally emphasized his African past by including #African #imagery in his paintings. The compressed space in his Self Portrait speaks to Johnson’s profound awareness of #modernist compositional devices. The easel at the left side of the canvas identifies him as an #artist, and the #masks in the background make an assertive statement about his African #heritage. In 1934, the year he painted his self-portrait, Johnson joined the ranks of the #PublicWorksOfArtProject, the first of President #FranklinRoosevelt’s #NewDeal art programs, which paid artists a monthly stipend. Although the job lasted only six months, Johnson was finally able to paint full time. Ironically, the year proved to be Johnson’s most prolific but also the last of his short #life. #DailyArt (at United States) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co5PF4wvK0W/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Suburban Apartments Lloyd Goff Born: Dallas, Texas 1908 Died: New York, New York 1982 oil on fiberboard 24 1/8 x 30 1/4 in. (61.2 x 76.8 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.155 Smithsonian American Art Museum Personal, educational and non-commercial use of digital images from the American Art Museum's collection is permitted, with attribution to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, for all images unless otherwise noted. http://ift.tt/2qqEjeD street, newyorkcity, travel, winter, urban, architecture, painting, season, landscape, town, automobile, paint, cityscape, exterior, apartment, domestic, oil, land, 1934, newdeal, fiberboard, smithsonianamericanartmuseum, publicworksofartproject, lloydgoff April 17, 2009 at 02:48PM Lloyd Goff: Suburban Apartments, 1934 by americanartmuseum http://flic.kr/p/6fSLt6