Letterio Calapai, ca. 1937

Physical Details: Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.

Creator: unidentified photographer

Description: Letterio Calapai working on a mural for the WPA.
Identification on verso (handwritten): 101st Army Signal Corps; artist: Calapai
Identification on accompanying label: The Civil War, left panel of a mural, "The Evolution of Communications in American Wars", painted for the 101st Battalion Signal Corps. 801 Dean St., Brooklyn, by Letterio Calapai, under the direction of the WPA Federal Art Project.

Forms part of: Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965, bulk 1935-1942

Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined

Citation: Letterio Calapai, ca. 1937 / unidentified photographer. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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Digital ID: 3129

Subjects:

• Art and state
• Artists at or with their work
• Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Calapai, Letterio
• Federal aid to the arts
• New Deal, 1933-1939
• Painting

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