Art
Caroline Durieux
Artist Caroline Wogan Durieux served as the director of the Louisiana office of the Federal Art Project.
Artist Caroline Wogan Durieux served as the director of the Louisiana office of the Federal Art Project.
Clarence John Laughlin was one of New Orleans' most renowned twentieth-century photographers and, at the same time, among the least understood.
The Federal Art Project and Federal Writers Project helped employ out-of-work artists and writers during the Great Depression.
The Federal Art Project was a Depression-era effort to bring art and artists into the everyday lives of Americans while simultaneously extending work relief to artists.
The Federal Writers Project in Louisiana produced oral histories, local guidebooks, and other writings between 1935 and 1939.
Gideon Townsend Stanton, a stockbroker and artist, was the state director for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in the 1930s.
Louisiana was deeply affected by the Great Depression when cotton, sugar, oil, and timber values plummeted, and the port of New Orleans experienced a precipitous decline in foreign trade.
During the Great Depression farm prices in Louisiana reached unheard-of lows and deepened rural poverty.
One of the best-known twentieth-century southern artists, John McCrady studied and worked in New Orleans, where he established an influential art school.
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