The Dill Pickle Club | Portland, Oregon

In preparation for our inaugural bike tour, I’ve uploaded several of the more remarkable documents I’ve come across in my research on federally supported art and the WPA in Oregon.

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Download the Portland Art Museum’s WPA brochure Back to Work: Oregon and the New Deal Art Projects.

Download Francis O’Connor’s recommendations from Federal Support for the Visual Arts: The New Deal & Now (1969).

Download a selection from An Oregon Almanac: A Handbook of Fact and Fancy (1940), a pamphlet produced by The Oregon Writer’s Project.

Download a copy of Oregon Oddities (1939), a newsletter on historic bells, also produced by The Oregon Writer’s Project.

There is also a great essay David A. Horowitz wrote for the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission on Martina Gangle, a Portland-based WPA artist and activist. Read it here.

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By Second Chance at Art for the Millions | ultra on June 30, 2009 at 5:39 pm

[...] Miss the tour this Sunday, and you can still dig into the history of the WPA in PDX on the Dill Pickle Club website where shortly Marc will post a PDF and podcast so that you can do a DIY tour. And in the meantime, he’s uploaded a number of texts on federally supported art and the WPA in Portland. [...]

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