For The Greater Good - New Deal Art In New Mexico 1933-1943

In celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the New Deal, the UNM Art Museum presents a major selection of artworks produced by New Mexico artists from 1933 to 1943 under the auspices of the various Federal New Deal art programs. The New Deal was established by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 to support American workers, including hundreds of artists, who were paid a living wage to produce murals, easel paintings, prints, sculptures, weavings, pottery, wood carvings, stage plays, musical scores, and some of the best written works of the period. For the first time in American history, artists were recognized as productive workers and valued for what they did. Every state had its representative artists and, because of its already established art culture, New Mexico was one of the most productive, its artists forging one of the richest legacies during the New Deal era.

Exhibition artists include: Willard Nash, Raymond Jonson, Gene Kloss, Kenneth Adams, Dorothy Morang, Howard A. Barton, Charles Barrow, José Dolores López, James Morris, Walter Ufer, B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Edna Pierce, Polia Pillin, Brooks Willis, Joseph Imhoff, Juanita Lantz, Santiago Matta, Willard Everingham, Blanca Will, Russell Lee, Lloyd Moylan and Victor Higgins.