Exhibitions

Roosevelt's America: New Deal Paintings from the National Museum of American Art

January 9, 1982 – November 30, 1982

Smithsonian American Art Museum
8th and G Streets, NW
Washington, DC

1st Floor, WPA Corridor

See on Map Floor Plan

An area of the museum permanently devoted to WPA art has been re-installed with an exhibit of 30 paintings created under the auspices of the New Deal's various art projects. On view are realistic urban and rural scenes by William Gropper, Joe Jones, Gifford Beal, Jerome Myers, and others.