Federal agents are hunting for historic paintings produced by Americans during the Works Progress Administration, the landmark Great Depression program to support destitute artists. A review by the ...

Locally, a drive around area communities provides views of cemetery walls, swimming pool bathhouses, picnic shelters, bridge ...

Of the over 225,000 artworks produced under the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, many have been lost over the years, scattered to the winds. Now the government is making progress in ...

When someone is called a "history detective" rarely is that person an actual detective. Michael Ramos is. Mike is a Special Agent with the Inspector Generals Office at the US General Services ...

Last spring, Michael Shefcik was watching an episode of “Antiques Roadshow,” the PBS series where hopeful owners of mystery art and antiques consult experts on whether it’s treasure or trash. The ...

Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) is currently hosting "Art For The People: WPA-Era Paintings from the Dijkstra Collection." The exhibit features works created during the Great Depression of the 1930s ...

WASHINGTON — When President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration launched a project to illustrate American folk art, it ended up with 18,527 watercolors of quilts, weather vanes, old ...

Federal agents have recently recovered dozens of lost historic art pieces ordered and funded by the U.S. government during the Great Depression. Investigators with the Inspector General’s office of ...

“These are five prints from the New Deal Works Project Administration (1935-1943) from the New York area,” wrote Paul Ganger in an email of the items he wanted considered for an appraisal. “These ...

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. In 1932, ...

WPA: Do those initials mean anything to you? They would if you were living in this country in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, when millions of people were out of work. As part of Franklin D.