U.S. Works Progress Administration

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/U.S._Works_Progress_Administration

GPTKB entity

Statements (97)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	New Deal agency
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:WPA
gptkbp:country	gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:director	gptkb:Harry_Hopkins
gptkbp:dissolved	1943
gptkbp:establishedBy	gptkb:Executive_Order_7034
gptkbp:formed	1935
gptkbp:fundedBy	gptkb:U.S._Congress
gptkbp:headquartersLocation	gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	U.S. Works Progress Administration
gptkbp:notableAlumni	gptkb:Arthur_Miller gptkb:Burt_Lancaster gptkb:Eudora_Welty gptkb:John_Cheever gptkb:John_Steinbeck gptkb:Paul_Robeson gptkb:Ralph_Ellison gptkb:Richard_Wright gptkb:Saul_Bellow gptkb:Sidney_Lumet gptkb:Studs_Terkel gptkb:Woody_Guthrie gptkb:Zora_Neale_Hurston gptkb:William_Zorach gptkb:Ben_Shahn gptkb:Carl_Mydans gptkb:Clifford_Odets gptkb:Gordon_Parks gptkb:Hyman_Bloom gptkb:John_Houseman gptkb:Joseph_Cotten gptkb:Margaret_Bourke-White gptkb:Orson_Welles gptkb:Philip_Guston gptkb:Alan_Lomax gptkb:Augusta_Savage gptkb:David_Smith gptkb:Dorothea_Lange gptkb:Elia_Kazan gptkb:Isamu_Noguchi gptkb:Jackson_Pollock gptkb:Jacob_Lawrence gptkb:Louise_Nevelson gptkb:Mark_Rothko gptkb:Pete_Seeger gptkb:Romare_Bearden gptkb:Walker_Evans gptkb:Willem_de_Kooning gptkb:Aaron_Douglas gptkb:Ad_Reinhardt gptkb:Arshile_Gorky gptkb:Berenice_Abbott gptkb:Chaim_Gross gptkb:Charles_Alston gptkb:Charles_White gptkb:Ilya_Bolotowsky gptkb:Joseph_Losey gptkb:Lee_Krasner gptkb:Lucienne_Bloch gptkb:May_Swenson gptkb:Milton_Avery gptkb:Moses_Soyer gptkb:Norman_Lewis gptkb:Raphael_Soyer gptkb:Saul_Levitt gptkb:Stuart_Davis gptkb:Theodore_Roszak gptkb:William_Gropper gptkb:Ann_Rosener gptkb:Arthur_Rothstein gptkb:Canada_Lee gptkb:Earl_Robinson gptkb:Edwin_Rosskam gptkb:Esther_Bubley gptkb:Jack_Delano gptkb:John_Collier_Jr. gptkb:John_Vachon gptkb:Marion_Post_Wolcott gptkb:Russell_Lee gptkb:Will_Geer
gptkbp:notableProject	gptkb:Federal_Art_Project gptkb:Federal_Music_Project gptkb:Federal_Theatre_Project gptkb:Federal_Writers'_Project gptkb:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey construction of bridges construction of public buildings construction of roads
gptkbp:numberOfPeopleEmployed	over 8 million
gptkbp:parentOrganization	gptkb:Federal_government_of_the_United_States
gptkbp:purpose	employment relief public works
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Great_Depression gptkb:New_Deal
gptkbp:successor	gptkb:Federal_Works_Agency
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:National_Archives_at_Riverside
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5