Florence-Kawa-The-Workers-1935.jpg - Wikipedia

Description

English: The Workers , wall hanging by Florence Kawa for the WPA Federal Art Project's Milwaukee Handicraft Project, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Reproduced in Kennedy, Roger G. ; Larkin, David (2009). When Art Worked: The New Deal, Art, and Democracy . New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8478-3089-3 . Pages 164–165. Kennedy writes, "The wall hanging displayed here was given to Eleanor Roosevelt".
Described as "block printed, on cotton plain weave", the work is in the American Textiles Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art . More information

Date

circa 1935

Source

Author

Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project; Florence Kawa (photographer unknown)

Permission
( Reusing this file )

This image is a work of a Works Progress Administration employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government , the image is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. §§ 101 and 105).