AAA , AMA, WPA and THE TEN
One Mural, Paintings, Works on Paper from the l930s - 1940s
May 23 - June 28, 2002

Twenty-two years ago the Washburn Gallery first showed Ilya Bolotowsky’s reconstruction of his WPA Mural (6 feet 10 inches x 17 feet) done in 1936 for the Williamsburg Housing Project. Since then, the original mural was brought out of the Housing Project, the coats of white paint which preserved it were removed from the surface, and the Mural is now on loan to the Brooklyn Museum from the New York City Housing Authority.

Interest in the 1930s and 1940s has steadily increased with the focus of scholarship enlarged well beyond the WPA. In view of these developments, the Washburn Gallery will exhibit the Bolotowsky Mural along with works from the period by some of the artists who were members of the many arts organizations active during those years.

The artists to be included are Rosalind Bengelsdorf, Charles Biederman, Ilya Bolotowsky, James Brooks, Burgoyne Diller, Balcomb Greene, Gertrude Greene, Harry Holtzman, Alice Trumbull Mason, George L.K. Morris, Louise Nevelson, Mark Rothko, Rolph Scarlett, Charles G. Shaw, David Smith and Jean Xceron.

AMERICAN ABSTRACT ARTISTS, AMERICAN MODERN ARTISTS, WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION and THE TEN are the organizations represented. The AAA remains active today. A brochure for the exhibition will be published with five color reproductions, including the Mural, and the attached excerpts by Barbara Rose from her book, American Art Since 1900. For further information and photographs, contact Joan Washburn at the address below.