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Place of publication, production, or execution:
Other
Physical Description:
10.5 Linear feet, (on partial microfilm reel); 0.6 Linear feet, Reel NDA 2: (on partial microfilm reel)
Access Note / Rights:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Summary:
Unmicrofilmed material: Correspondence of Adele Clark, Thomas Parker, and Thomas Singleton; minutes of meetings time sheets and monthly reports; subject files on various FAP projects; photographs; and prints, watercolors, and sketches done by FAP artists. Most of the records relate to the Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts in Richmond, Va., the Big Stone Gap Community Art Center, and the Index of American Design.
Reel NDA 2: Ca. 500 letters, reports, rosters, directives, manuscripts and other materials pertaining to the FAP in Virginia; ca. 135 photographs of administrators, students, works of art, and art exhibitions; ca. 120 pages of sketches by FAP artists; and news clippings, mimeographed programs, and circulars.
Citation:
Federal Art Project records of Adele Clark, 1931-1963. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
35mm microfilm reel NDA 2 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Related Materials:
Adele Clark papers; also at: Special Collections, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Biography Note:
Clark was the Virginia state director of the Federal Art Project (FAP); Parker and Singleton were both directors of the Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts, Richmond, Va. The FAP was a federal relief art program established under Federal Project No. 1 of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) which provided work for unemployed artists and craftsmen during the Depression.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
The donor, Adeline Cox, is the niece of Adele Clark.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
