Art
Caroline Durieux
Artist Caroline Wogan Durieux served as the director of the Louisiana office of the Federal Art Project.
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8.13 d.-e. Federal Art and Writers Projects
The Federal Art Project and Federal Writers Project helped employ out-of-work artists and writers during the Great Depression.
Art
Federal Art Project
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.
History
Great Depression in Louisiana
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.
8.13 a.-b., d.-e. Great Depression in Louisiana
During the Great Depression farm prices in Louisiana reached unheard-of lows and deepened rural poverty.
Art
John McCrady
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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