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| Migrants in California, Charles Surendorf, an artist participating in the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the New Deal administration, created this wood engraving in 1938. Surendorf's work depicts the Dust Bowl migration of families from the Great Plains to California. The FAP funded artists to create murals for public buildings and to document local life through graphic arts and photography. Source: Frontiers of American Art, Works Progress Administration: Federal Art Project, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1939. |