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WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION FEDERAL ART PROJECT TO ALL ARTISTS OF THE EASEL DIVISION Dead Line on Paintings If the painting to be delivered on your assignment is still wet, or if you feel, in order to satisfy yourself and to give the Project your best efforts, it needs more work, you can get an extension of time on your assignment by coming in to the office with this information. At that time you can take your new assignment and deliver the work owed the Project when it is dry or completed. EXHIBITIONS "Mural Painting for the Community" (until June 15th) If you have not already seen this exhibition at the Federal Art Project Gallery at 225 West 57th Street - don't miss it. INDEX OF AMERICAN DESIGN Macy's -34th Street and 6th Avenue, Manhattan. Opening June 21st. OUTSIDE EXHIBITIONS "Color Prints in Various Techniques" by Four Federal Art Project Artists Brooklyn Museum, Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. May 27th to September 5th. The Cincinnati Art Museum announces it's Forty Fifth Annual Exhibition of American Art - opening October 1st, 1938. Information regarding this exhibition is posted on the Bulletin Board in the Easel Division office. The Metropolitan Museum has acquired the work of 18 artists; the Brooklyn Museum has the work of 9; the Whitney Museum of American Art has bought approximately 175 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints by 101 present or former artist employees of the WPA Federal Art Project. The Museum of Modern Art has in its permanent collection the work of 2 project painters. Five project artists are represented in the Newark Museum, 6 in the Art Institute of Chicago, 3 in the Corcoran Gallery of Washington, 5 in the Los Angeles Museum, 6 in the Cleveland Museum, 2 in the Worcester Art Museum and 2 in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The Phillip's Memorial Gallery in Washington has acquired 23 paintings of 7 artists now or previously on the Federal Art Project. Twelve museums and institutions in foreign countries own 18 works and 8 colleges and educational foundations in this county have acquired work by Project artists. W.P.A artists have won 61 competitions. The World's Fair have already commissioned 5 Project artists to execute mural paintings and sculpture. Recently a Federal Art Project sculptor won the $8,000. prize for a World's Fair sculpture group. Second prize was also won by a Project sculptor. Ten Project artists have been awarded Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships. One Project artist has been awarded 18 first and second prizes here and abroad. One Project Mural Painter just received the Architectural League honorable mention for his W.P.A Mural Panel. Another received the gold medal award in 1936. In the Graphic medium 8 W.P.A artists had their prints selected for the magazine, "Fine Prints of the year, 1937." Seven W.P.A prints were selected and included in "Fifty American Prints-1933-1938" Project artists have had 95 one-man shows here and abroad and have been invited to participate in international exhibitions. This record of achievement is an enviable one and contributes its own stimulus to the Project. BENJAMIN KNOTTS LUCILE BLANCH GEORGE PICKEN FAP:957
