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The Artist and the Government: The P.W.A.P.

Abstract: With the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the mass unemployment that hit the United States, drastic changes took place in the relationship of the Federal Government to the art community. By 1933, over 12,000,000 Americans were unemployed and the majority of the artists, who in good times were at best a marginally successful economic group, were exceptionally hard hit because of diminished private patronage. This was unfortunate because it was a period of exciting regional production and renewed interest in mural work that had been stimulated by the Mexican experiment that was started in 1926. At that time, Mexico, under the leadership of President Obregon, began to hire muralists at workmen's wages to decorate public buildings and the best murals of Jose Orozco and Diego Rivera resulted.1