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New Deal Art in Virginia: The Oils, Murals, Reliefs and Frescoes and Their Creators

AUTHOR Davis, Anita Price
PUBLISHER McFarland & Company (10/01/2009)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)
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This book is the only record of federally-funded art projects in Virginia post offices during the Great Depression. It provides an historical overview of each city or town that is home to the artwork, information on federal structures housing the artwork, a photograph and description of the artwork itself, and a biographical sketch of the artist. Features 148 photographs.
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ISBN-13: 9780786441853
ISBN-10: 0786441852
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 223
Carton Quantity: 17
Product Dimensions: 6.90 x 0.80 x 9.90 inches
Weight: 0.90 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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Art | Movements - Modernism
Art | United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
Art | United States - 20th Century
Grade Level: College Freshman and up
Dewey Decimal: 709.730
Library of Congress Control Number: 2009020617
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This book is the only record of federally-funded art projects in Virginia post offices during the Great Depression. It provides an historical overview of each city or town that is home to the artwork, information on federal structures housing the artwork, a photograph and description of the artwork itself, and a biographical sketch of the artist. Features 148 photographs.

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Author: Davis, Anita Price
Rutherford County natives Anita Price Davis and James M. Walker are honored to present Rutherford County in World War II, Volume II. An alumnus of Appalachian State and Duke Universities, Davis holds her doctorate and is The Charles A. Dana Professor of Education at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She previously published Chimney Rock and Rutherford County with Barry Hambright and Rutherford County in World War II with James M. Walker. Walker is both a contract and freelance photographer and a school volunteer, recently retired after 31 years as an educator in the Rutherford County public schools.
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