Connecticut WPA Art

Frederick Wright (1893-1971?)Little is known about Frederick Wright. He worked for the FAP in 1938 and his residence on the Work Card is East Hartland, CT. The Social Security Death Index lists Frederick Wright whose last known residence was East Hartland as having been born in 1893 and date of death as October 1971. Wright completed six easels for the FAP, four of which were r...

Saling, Paul E. (1876-1936)Paul Saling was born in Germany in 1876. The year that he came to the United States and settled in Hartford is unknown. He studied art in Germany, in Hartford under Charles Noel Flagg and William Gedney Bunce, and with the Connecticut League of Art Students. From 1914-1923 the Hartford Courantcarried evidence that one Paul E. Saling was a decorator wi...

Schwartz, Rubin (?)Little is known about Rubin Schwartz except that he completed 13 works for the WPA Federal Arts Project from 1938-40. He was assigned to the project on December 15, 1936. Only one of his easel paintings was allocated, and that was to the Cedarcrest Sanatorium. The dates of Schwartz’s birth and death are unknown.�Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; WPA Allocation...

Shellhase, George M. (1895-1988)George Shellhase was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1899. He attended the Industrial Art School and Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Students League in New York City. He came to New York City in 1916. He was an illustrator-cartoonist and had his work published in the New York Evening Post the New York Herald Tribune. He enlist...

Skidmore, Arba R.(?)Arba Skidmore was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the Mohegan Lake School in New York and the Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts. Before becoming an artist, he worked as a salesman for Chase and Sanborn for several years. Skidmore left this job to study art at the Art Students League in New York for one year before World War One. After...

Skreczko, Henry (1906-?)Henry Skreczko was born on October 23, 1906, in New York City. Soon after his birth his family moved to Shelton, Connecticut where he attended the local public schools. He studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts for four years. After graduating he assisted on several mural jobs in New York City under Griffith Bailey Cole, Leroy Daniel McMorris, Rambush D...

Smith, Phillip (?)Phillip Smith lived in Hartford, Connecticut and worked for the WPA Federal Arts Project from December 5, 1935, to April 15, 1938. Nine of his works were for the Index of American Design. All of his other paintings were allocated to places in Hartford. He painted six panels of a mural on sports for the Pope Park Community Center, three panels on nursery rhymes...

Steinhart, Walter (?)Walter Steinhart was a wood carver who worked in the framing department at the Federal Arts Project headquarters in New Haven, Connecticut. He made frames, mats, and screens. His residence was in New Haven. Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; WPA Federal Arts Project Newsletter (ND).Works of Art Listed in CT Archives' database from Walter Steinhart:Steinh...

Stephenson, Eunice (?)All we know about Eunice Stephenson is that she illustrated children’s books, in 1939 she completed a mural for the WPA Federal Arts Project entitled Nursery Tales at the Julius Stark School in Stamford, and that her husband, James Cochran, died on November 16, 1942. Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; “The New Books for Boys and Girls,” New York Times, ...

Sullivan, Francis (?)Francis Sullivan joined the WPA Federal Arts Project in 1938 and worked well into 1939. He lived in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a “well known painter and president of the Connecticut League of Art Students in Hartford.” Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; WPA Federal Arts Project Newsletter (ND).Works of Art Listed in CT Archives' database from Francis ...