American Art, 1900-1945
American Federation of Arts. Alone in a Crowd, Prints of the 1930s-40s by African American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1993.
Baigell, Matthew. The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s. New York: Praeger, 1974.
Brown, Milton. American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1955.
Doezema, Marianne. American Realism and the Industrial Age. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art; distributed by Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1980.
Hills, Patricia. Social Concern and Urban Realism: American Painting of the 1930s. Boston: Boston University Art Gallery, 1983.
Powell, Richard J. and Jock Reynolds. To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Andover, Mass.: Addison Gallery of American Art; New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem; distributed by MIT Press, 1999.
Taylor, Joshua C. America as Art. Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1976.
Taylor, William E. and Harriet G. Warkel. A Shared Heritage: Art by Four African Americans. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1996.
WPA Art
American Stuff: An Anthology of Prose and Verse by Members of the Federal Writer's Project. New York: Viking Press, 1937.
Bloxom, Marguerite D. Pickaxe and Pencil: References for the Study of the WPA. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1982.
Bustard, Bruce. A New Deal for the Arts. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.
Contreras, Belisario R. Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1983.
Harris, Jonathan. Federal Art and National Culture: The Politics of Identity in New Deal America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Marling, Karal Ann. Wall-to-Wall America: A Cultural History of Post Office Murals in the Great Depression. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982.
Mavigliano, George. The Federal Art Project in Illinois. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.
___. "The Federal Art Project: Holger Cahill's Program of Action," Art Education. May 1984, pp. 26-30.
Melosh, Barbara. Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theater. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
O'Connor, Francis V. Federal Art Patronage 1933-1943. College Park, Maryland: University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1966.
___. The New Deal Art Projects: An Anthology of Memoirs. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972.
___. Art for the Millions. Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, Ltd., 1973.
Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz. Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.
Chicago Art and Architecture
The Plan of Chicago: 1909-1979. Exhibition catalog. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.
Draper, Joan E. Edward H. Bennett, Architect and City Planner, 1874-1954. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.
Miller, John, Ed. Chicago Stories: Tales of the City. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993.
Moody, Walter D. Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago: Municipal Economy. Especially Prepared for Study in the Schools of Chicago. Chicago: Chicago Plan Commission, Hotel Sherman, 1920.
O'Toole, Judith Hansen. Mitchell Siporin: The Early Years 1930-50. New York: Babcock Galleries, 1990.
Rosales, Janice Marienthal. "A History of the Helen C. Peirce School Trust." Ph.D. dissertation, Loyola University, Chicago, 1996.
Sorell, Victor. Guide to Chicago Murals: Yesterday and Today. Chicago: Chicago Council on Fine Arts, 1979.
TEACHING MANUALS in the Elizabeth Stone Robson Teacher Resource Center
African American Art at The Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997.
American Art and Culture: Curriculum Resource Guide. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1995.
Chicago: The City in Art–A Curriculum Guide for Teachers (at Albert Lane Technical High School). Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997.
Chicago: The City in Art 1999–A Curriculum Guide for Teachers. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2001.
Elizabeth Stone Robson Teacher Resource Center, The Art Institute of Chicago
www.artic.edu/aic/students/resources.html
Site that introduces visitors to the museum's resource center for teachers. The center loans (for teachers who work 100 miles or more away from Chicago) and/or sells a collection of curriculum materials, including teaching aids related to the CPS murals and the WPA.
Chicago Public Schools www.cps.edu
The Chicago Board of Education's Web site, which offers updated school calendars, articles on current education topics, an archive of educational documents and publications, and information on select CPS programs. The CPS Academic Standards also can be accessed.
The Chicago Public Schools Art Collection www.cpsart.org
An online database of art objects in the collections of the Chicago Public Schools, including WPA murals, with a brief history of the ongoing mural restoration.
Chicago Conservation Center www.chicagoconservation.com
The private conservation lab that helped spearhead the restoration of Chicago Public School murals and continues its work at several sites. The CCC site offers a list of services and treatments, as well as images of treated works.
Parma Conservation www.parmaconservation.com
The company responsible for current conservation work on Chicago Public School mural and paintings. Parma has also conserved numerous Illinois WPA post office murals. Before and after treatment pictures appear on the site.
Polk Bros. Foundation www.polkbrosfdn.org
Site detailing the mission and initiatives of the foundation that offered financial support for Chicago: The City in Art. Polk Bros. Foundation seeks to strengthen the city's children and families through social services and educational, cultural, and health-care programs.
Lane Technical High School www.lanehs.com
A virtual art gallery of the WPA and Century of Progress murals that decorate this school, with information about the murals' conservation, as well as links to local and national museums and arts organizations.
MuralArt.Com www.muralart.com
Information about United States murals, especially Californian, Jewish, and African American mural subjects and artists. Users can purchase related books and postcard packs online.
Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) www.sparcmurals.com
SPARC is a California-based resource that offers youth programs, information, and color images of public art. A division of this organization, the Mural Resource Education Center in Los Angeles, offers a mural maintenance and inventory program and a wide variety of educational merchandise.
New Deal Network www.newdeal.feri.org
Site associated with the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute that provides classroom resources and lesson plans on aspects of the Great Depression and the New Deal, with bibliographical materials.
Sin Nombre: Hispana and Hispano Artists of the New Deal Era wpasinnombre.org
Web site for the 2001 Museum of International Folk Art exhibition on Hispana and Hispano WPA artists in New Mexico.
Illinois State Museum www.museum.state.il.us
Site on the history and natural and cultural heritage of Illinois, with online exhibitions and programs promoting research and learning in science, history, art, and literature.
Wall of Respect www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/wallofrespect/index.htm
Northwestern University site on the mural on the South Side of Chicago created and repainted between 1967 and 1971 by members of the Black Arts Movement. Includes a time-lapse view of the evolving outdoor mural, interviews with artists and scholars, essays, a timeline, and lesson plans.
Beyond the Easel http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/easel/home/index.html
Online presentation of the Art Institute exhibition Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890-1930. Includes examples of paintings that the artists known as the Nabis produced for private and public interiors as well as artists’ biographies and a 360-degree view of a reconstructed room in the exhibition. |
