Description: This photograph shows Adelaid Dybell pointing to an oil painting of mortar and pestles in Cleveland, Ohio, likely teaching, as part of the Federal Art Project. Through the Federal Art Project (FAP), part of the Works Progress Administration, many artists were put to work teaching art classes and providing services. The FAP employed more than 5, 000 artists who created 225, 000 works of art for the American people. Many famous artists got their start working on the WPA, including Will Barnet, Adolph Gottlieb, Archibald Motley, David Park, and Jackson Pollock. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_040_001
Subjects: Art--Study and teaching; Paintings; Art schools; Federal Art Project; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "PORTSMOUTH - Sciotoville School, constructed by WPA." This is a photo of Sciotoville School in Portsmouth, Ohio. The building, which was constructed by the WPA in 1936-37, is still used today. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_002_001
Subjects: High schools--Ohio; Art deco; School building--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Sciotoville (Portsmouth, Ohio); Students; Education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: A mural study in watercolor by Columbus, Ohio, artist Emerson Burkhart depicting a classroom scene. This is one of many studies for murals commissioned to Burkhart in 1930s, some of them funded by the Works Progress Administration. It is most likely a sketch done for the Burkhart WPA mural executed in 1936 on the area above the stage in the Central High School auditorium. Burkhart (1905-1969) was an artist very well known to Columbus residents during his lifetime. He was born in Union Township, Ohio. After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1927, he moved to the East Coast and studied art under the direction of Charles Hawthorne, among others. He returned to Ohio in 1931 to teach at Ohio School of Art in Columbus. He painted 3,000 pieces during his career, many of which were portraits of Ohio residents. In addition to painting local street scenes and rural landscapes, he is also known for numerous self-portraits. He was married to Mary Ann Burkhart, née Martin (1918-1955), a famous New York art model who became an artist herself. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H82906
Subjects: Burkhart, Emerson (1905-1969); Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Public art; Federal Art Project; Works Progress Administration; Schools--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The bronze lion sculpture was comissioned in 1907 by the Steele High School Decorative Arts Association. It was created by Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington in 1908, paid for by money raised by the students of the school. During the flood of 1913, the lion was knocked off its base and had to be reinstalled in 1914. When the school was torn down in 1955, the statue was relocated to the front lawn of the Dayton Art Institute. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F09_042_1
Subjects: Education; Schools; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Art and Entertainment; Sculpture; Plants and Animals
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1930-1939, this photograph shows art students at Hayes Elementary School in Lakewood, Ohio, making garden plans and garden tools. The original Hayes Elementary School, located at 16401 Delaware Avenue, was demolished in 2005 and the new school opened in 2007. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_030_001
Subjects: Art Education; Lakewood (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Elementary schools--United States; Students; Children
Places: Lakewood (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)