Start Year: 1937

A set of drawings and watercolors by Merlin Pollock are on display at the Anchorage Museum in Anchorage, Alaska.  These were done by Pollock during a six-month spell in 1937 working in Alaska for the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).  He was one of a dozen artists recruited by the FAP to capture the landscapes and cultures of the territory (Alaska only became a state in 1956). They are beautifully displayed and explained in one of the museum's galleries. Pollock went on to teach at Syracuse University. 

Two paintings by Carl Saxild are on display at the Anchorage Museum of History & Art in Anchorage, Alaska.  Saxild was one of a dozen artists recruited by the Federal Art Project (FAP) to capture the landscapes and cultures of the Alaska Territory (Alaska only became a state in 1958).  Saxild went to Alaska in 1937 but completed most of his paintings from sketches after returning to his studio in Massachusetts; so the exact date of the paintings are unknown. The untitled paintings are on display in one of the museum's main galleries. We do not know if the Anchorage Museum...

The McKinley Park Hotel at the entrance to Mount McKinley (now Denali) National Park  was built in 1937-38. with most of the funds coming from the New Deal’s Public Works Administration (PWA).   On September 3, 1972, the hotel burned down. Sadly, many artworks were destroyed, including 41 paintings by artists Arthur Kerrick, Antonio Mattei, Carl Saxild, Prescott Jones, Merlin Pollock, Vernon Smith, and others. These artworks were all done under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project (FAP), which hired unemployed artists to enliven public buildings.  

The Works Progress Administration built Harkins Hall in Uniontown KY in 1938. The building served as a Gymnasium/Community Hall. The  structure was built on a concrete base to withstand flooding after the town had experienced recurrent flooding events. 

The Public Works Administration funded the construction of municipal offices and auditorium for the City of Marion, Kansas. It still serves this purpose.

Landis Hall was completed in 1938 as a 202-room dormitory for student nurses and other employees working at the Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee, Florida. It replaced the old nurses home which was destroyed in February 1937. The construction contract was financed in part by the PWA and awarded to Batson and Cook of West Point, Georgia. The building was named for the late Florida Attorney-General, Cary D. Landis. PWA Docket No. Fla 1372-DS.

Medford Lakes's Municipal Sewer Plant and collection pipelines, Waste Water Treatment Facility and collection system was built with Works Progress Administration (WPA) assistance in 1937-1938. "The sewage system for the community was built in 1937 to 1938 through WPA assistance and has been extended so that now Medford Lakes is completely sewered."

With funding from the New Deal's Federal Art Project, C. S. Price painted a 21 x 4 foot mural for the newly constructed Pendleton Junior High School in 1937. Titled "Agriculture," the five panel composition draws upon images of farming and ranching life that characterized many of his paintings. The theme also suited Pendleton's cultural and economic base. Although originally located in Pendleton's junior high school, the mural hangs in the foyer of the Pendleton High School auditorium today. Clayton Sumner Price, known as C.S. Price, grew up in a large farming family in Iowa, Wyoming, and Alberta and worked on...

"Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge is a northern treasure in the National Wildlife Refuge System. It consists of nearly 30,000 acres of federally protected lands in northeastern coastal Maine. The refuge's landscape is varied, with rolling hills, large ledge outcroppings, streams, lakes, bogs, and marshes. The diversity of forests and wetlands provides habitat for over 225 species of birds, endangered species, resident wildlife and rare plants. A northern hardwood forest of aspen, maple, birch, spruce and fir dominates the upland. Scattered stands of majestic white pine are common. The Edmunds Division boasts several miles of rocky shoreline where tidal fluctuations of...

The Public Works Administration funded the construction of the Oildale Standard School Auditorium in Bakersfield CA. The structure has been in use as a school auditorium since completed in 1937.