Artists Union

Artists Union
Merged intoArtists League of America
Formation1933–34
DissolvedMay 1942
Typeunion
Purposeemployment for artists
Headquarters60 West Fifteenth Street
Location
First president
Byron Browne[1]: 124 
First secretary
Bernarda Bryson[1]
Formerly called
  • Emergency Work Bureau Artists Group[2]
  • Unemployed Artists Group

The Artists Union or Artists' Union was a short-lived union of artists in New York in the years of the Great Depression. It was influential in the establishment of both the Public Works of Art Project in December 1933 and the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration in August 1935. It functioned as the principal meeting-place for artists in the city in the 1930s, and thus had far-ranging effects on the social history of the arts in America.[3]

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