- City:
- Gallup, NM
- Site Type:
- Art Works
- New Deal Agencies:
- Arts Programs, Work Relief Programs, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Artists:
- A. D. Smit, A. L. Groll, Allan Houser, Anna W. Huntington, Begay, E.A. Burbank, Erik Barger, Frederick Dertwiller, H. B. Tshudy, Harrison Begay, Helmuth Naumer, Joseph Fleck, Lloyd Moylan, William R. Leigh
Description
This collection of WPA art is now housed in the Octavia Fellin Public Library in Gallup, New Mexico
The collection consists of 29 listed items including furniture, oil paintings, watercolors, pastels, etchings and sculpture. All items were obtained from the Gallup Arts Center (a WPA Arts Center) when it was demolished to make room for the City Hall in Gallup New Mexico. Documents at the library detail each work as well as the history of the collection.
Source notes
Library documents.Site originally submitted by Art Hazelwood on December 17, 2013.
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