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and Greenville, South Carolina; Mobile and Birmingham, Alabama and in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

A gallery will be established August 10 in Lynchburg, Virginia. Plans call for other art centers in Mississippi, Georgia and Arkansas.

The giant undertaking of the Federal Art Project is the Index of American Design. European nations, long realizing the importance of studies of this kind, have published richly illustrated volumes of native decorative and applied art, thus placing at the disposal of their scholars and creative workers the full picture of their national arts of design. The Index of American Design will be an analogous graphic source-record of the rise and development of American design up to the 20th Century, composed of pictures, -- accurate, documented drawings in black and white and in color, and photographs.

The material comprising the Index of American Design will be supplies by the various local units working through art and historical societies and volunteer advisory committees. This compilation may be expected to form the basis for a native source-book of an organic development of American design derived from that of the past which is valuable and which should stimulate original contributions in the future.

The Index of American Design will make accessible and accurate, usable record of American design through libraries and museums not only to designers and manufacturers but also to art students, artists, and scholars. No such compilation as this has ever been undertaken in this country, and if the Federal Art Project had not instituted this work at this time, it is altogether probable that before any private agency attempted the task much valuable material would have been forever lost.

Numerically, the easel painting section of the work of the Federal Art Project in the country over is the largest, Essentially, of