WPA Art Collection – Gallup NM

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.

Location Info


115 West Hill Ave.,
Gallup, NM 87301
McKinley County

Coordinates: 35.525264, -108.74116

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One comment on “WPA Art Collection – Gallup NM

  1. carolyn modeen

    El Rancho Hotel has a wall mural from the WPA days

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    El Rancho Hotel has a wall mural from the WPA days

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