Editing Federal Art Project (section)

==Poster Division==
[[File:Art classes for children LCCN98510141.jpg|thumb|WPA poster advertising art classes for children]]
{{anchor|WPA Poster Division}}
The WPA Poster Division was headed by [[Richard Floethe]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=DeNoon |first=Christopher |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16558529 |title=Posters of the WPA |date=1987 |publisher=Wheatley Press, in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle |others=Francis V. O'Connor |isbn=0-295-96543-6 |location=Los Angeles |oclc=16558529}}</ref> The WPA Poster Division is thought to have produced upward of 35,000 designs and printed some two million posters, originally by hand but quickly transitioning to widespread adoption of the silkscreen process.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carter |first=Ennis |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/227919759 |title=Posters for the people : art of the WPA |date=2008 |publisher=Quirk Books |others=Christopher DeNoon, Alexander M. Peltz |isbn=978-1-59474-292-7 |location=Philadelphia, PA |oclc=227919759}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> The Poster Division began in New York City and by 1938 had artists in 18 states; the Chicago unit was the second-most productive after New York.<ref name=":0" /> According to preeminent New Deal art historian [[Francis V. O’Connor]], only about 2,000 surviving examples of WPA poster art are held in the nation’s library and museum print collections.<ref name=":0" />