And the posters around which this effort revolved - which also offered advice and encouragement to boost morale - sit at the center of a new exhibit at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential ...

The Works Projects Administration (WPA), originally the Works Progress Administration, was the largest and most ambitious agency in FDR's New Deal. The WPA appropriated 6.7 percent of the country ...

Roosevelt, in 1936, paid artists to create the posters on a wide variety of public programs, from art to safety. Not only were the artists getting paid but the artists, through their work ...

But in the catalog of Roosevelt’s collection there is a solitary, jarring exception to the traditional art he enjoyed – a heavy, blocky, abstracted sculpture which stands out for its complete ...

Visitors to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park can get a glimpse at how the government used posters during FDR’s time in office to garner support for and ...