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course, the aim of this phace of the project is to conserve the skills of the artists, who, without Federal aid, might lose everything gained by years of study and work. This conservation is absolutely essential if the country is to continue its cultural advancement and if the artist are to take their places in the community as self-supporting men and women when the depression is ended. But no less important, in the final analysis, is the acquisition for the public of a body of art work valuable in itself and one which will serve to stimulate a wider appreciation and understanding of art and to create a future market for the nation's artists.

None of this work is sold, all of it is going to tax supported buildings, and the special needs of the institutions, public buildings, schools, hospitals, etc., to which it goes are carefully considered. Requests for easel paintings from hospital authorities and from other public institutions already far exceed the paintings available, although an ideal of the Federal Art Project is to eventually place at least one painting in every hospital room in the country.

The work of the Graphic Arts Section is generally done in the artists' studios, although the advantages of cooperative activity are becoming more generally recognized as in projects of the kind established in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and elsewhere where workshops have been set up and presses installed. Much of this equipment is being furnished by public spirited individuals and groups at no expense to the project. Prints produced by this project also go to public institutions.

Of no less social value is the work of the poster section, consisting, in general, of announcing, illustrating and promoting the many civic enterprises of such municipal departments as the fire, police,

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Note misspelling of "phase"