About: Artists Union

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The Artists Union or Artists' Union was a short-lived union of artists in New York City in the years of the Great Depression. It was influential in the establishment of both the Public Works of Art Project in December 1933 and the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration in August 1935. It functioned as the principal meeting-place for artists in the city in the 1930s, and thus had far-ranging effects on the social history of the arts in America.

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  • The Artists Union or Artists' Union was a short-lived union of artists in New York City in the years of the Great Depression. It was influential in the establishment of both the Public Works of Art Project in December 1933 and the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration in August 1935. It functioned as the principal meeting-place for artists in the city in the 1930s, and thus had far-ranging effects on the social history of the arts in America. (en)
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  • employment for artists
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  • a faded card showing a logo of a stylized fist clutching three paintbrushes (en)
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  • Harry Gottlieb's membership card, in the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution (en)
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  • May 1942 (en)
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  • 1933 (xsd:integer)
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  • Emergency Work Bureau Artists Group (en)
  • Unemployed Artists Group (en)
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  • Bernarda Bryson (en)
  • Byron Browne (en)
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  • First president (en)
  • First secretary (en)
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  • New York City, United States (en)
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  • Artists Union (en)
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  • employment for artists (en)
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  • The Artists Union or Artists' Union was a short-lived union of artists in New York City in the years of the Great Depression. It was influential in the establishment of both the Public Works of Art Project in December 1933 and the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration in August 1935. It functioned as the principal meeting-place for artists in the city in the 1930s, and thus had far-ranging effects on the social history of the arts in America. (en)
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  • Artists Union (en)
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  • Artists Union (en)
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