Collection Information
Size: 3 items (on partial microfilm reel).
Summary: Photographs of paintings by Hardy done for the Federal Art Project in California.
Hardy, Merlin, 1910-1984
Muralist, Painter
Size: 3 items (on partial microfilm reel).
Summary: Photographs of paintings by Hardy done for the Federal Art Project in California.
Merlin C. Hardy (1910-1984) was a painter and mural painter from northern Calif. Painted for the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration.
The lender, Lewis Ferbrache, collected papers for AAA from artists and administrators of the various government funded art programs of the Depression. It was part of a larger nation-wide, collecting project, "New Deal and the Arts."
Microfilm reel NDA 15 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Merlin Hardy photographs of works of art, 1941. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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