Connecticut WPA Art

Tillinghast, Archie (1909-?)Archie Tillinghast was born on June 8, 1909, in Stonington, Connecticut. He attended primary school in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey before graduating from the East Side High School in Newark, New Jersey. From 1929 until 1931 he studied art at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. Tillinghast’s work was exhibited at th...

Tock, A. J. (?)A. J. Tock completed one known work for the WPA Federal Arts Project. Nothing else is known about him.Works of Art Listed in CT Archives' database from A. Tock:In Mr. White's Office:oilLange Mural:oilUntitled Mural: Tree:watercolorTock, A. J.

Tomlinson, Henry (1875-1949)Henry Tomlinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 18, 1875. He attended local public schools and Baltimore City College. He also took drawing courses at night, and in 1895 he received the Peabody Prize at the Maryland Institute of Art. When Tomlinson was 21 he moved to New York where he studied art for a year with the Art Students League a...

Wakeman, Robert C. (1889-1964)Robert Wakeman was born in Norwalk, Connecticut on October 26, 1889. He attended the Yale School of Fine Arts. He was a member of the National Arts Club and the Silvermine Guild of Artists, and he exhibited across the country. For Norwalk’s tercentenary, he created a commemorative coin for the Norwalk Historical Society. Prior to the WPA Federal Ar...

Waterbury, Blanche (1878-1950)All that is known about Blanche Waterbury is that she worked for the WPA Art Project in 1936, and that she was living in Wilton, Connecticut at the time. She may have worked for the Index of American Design since she painted four renderings of a hall lantern in watercolor. Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; Ancestry.com.Works of Art Listed in CT Arch...

Weiss, Frederick (?)Nothing is known about Frederick Weiss except that he worked for the WPA Federal Arts Project in 1936 and painted 30 water colors for the Index of American Design. However, the only photograph of his art is of a screen painting. He lived in Stamford while employed by the WPA.Source:  WPA Artist’s Work Card.Works of Art Listed in CT Archives' database from Fr...

Weld, Howard R. (?)In 1936 Howard Weld was transferred from the Public Works of Art Project to the WPA Federal Arts Project. He finished 18 plates for the Index of American Design. The dates of Weld’s birth and death are unknown. Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; Erwin Christensen, The Index of American Design (1950), p. 156-157, 205.Works of Art Listed in CT Archives' data...

Weniger, Maria P.  (1880-?)Maria Weniger was born in Bevensen, Germany in 1880. She studied art in Munich. She was a member of the Art Alliance of America. She lived in New York City and then moved to Silvermine, in New Canaan, Connecticut. Weniger worked under the Public Works of Art Project and then completed one work under the WPA Federal Arts Project, a carved mahogany scul...

West, George (?)George West worked with Edward Benoit lettering and painting signs for East Rock and West Rock Parks near New Haven using larcoloid, an acrylic latex gloss enamel applied to primed metal surfaces. The signs were directional placed along nature trails; textual describing the life cycle, behavior, and habitats of birds, insects, mammals, and vegetation and explain...

Woodson, Rodney (1895-?)Rodney Woodson was born in Baldwin, Louisiana on July 6, 1895. He attended public schools in San Antonio, Texas; Oyster Bay, New York; and Norwalk, Connecticut; and high schools in New York City, Oyster Bay, and Meriden, Connecticut. He moved to Connecticut in 1909. Woodson studied art under Ms. Temple of Oyster Bay, and Ms. Lila C. Yale in Meriden. He r...