New Deal Art in the Northwest: The WPA and Beyond

From December 1933 to February 1943, as part of a sprawling economic stimulus package, four federal programs hired artists to create public artworks and provide art-making opportunities to millions of Americans. When this initiative abruptly ended shortly after the US entry into World War II, information and artworks were lost or scattered, long obscuring the story of what had happened in the Northwest.

This groundbreaking volume (which accompanies an exhibition at the Tacoma Art Museum) off...