Bohemians on the Breadline: The Radical Women Artists of Roosevelt's New Deal

The extraordinary and unexamined history of women making radical art under Roosevelt’s New Deal

Like millions of Americans in the Great Depression, artists Alice Neel, Augusta Savage, Georgette Seabrooke, Lenore Thomas Straus, Elizabeth Olds, and Pablita Velarde embraced employment through President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs. The Federal Arts Project was one of the most unique social experiments in U.S. history: mass public funding of art meant for the public. Murals were painted, sculpt...