Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)

Dictionary of Kansas artists who were born in or artistically active in the state before 1945. The first edition of this work was compiled in 2006 and includes about 1700 artists' entries. The revised and expanded edition was completed in 2009 and includes corrections and additions with over 2600 artists' entries and information from additional sources

New Deal murals in Kentucky post offices.

This dissertation takes a primarily art historical approach to the murals commissioned from 1934 to 1943 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt\u27s administration. This study is confined to the post office murals created for the Commonwealth of Kentucky under the United states Treasury Department\u27s Section of Fine Arts. Many of these paintings were lost or deliberately destroyed when the program was dismantled. Today most of the remaining murals are dirty and· faded and little noticed. Many of the artists have been forgotten. During the Depression years, however, these paintings contributed to local pride, optimism for the future, stronger patriotism, and a sense of community. Since then, the murals have been ignored or denigrated as inferior examples of painting. My thesis is that the murals do have artistic significance. Almost every muralist whose work is still in a Kentucky post office had a solid academic training, many of them in Paris, and a good grasp of the fundamentals of painting. Their work is well worth stylistic analysis and preservation as part of our American heritage