Connecticut WPA Art

Pollock, James A. (?)James Arlin Pollock worked for the WPA in 1941 while he was living in Essex, Connecticut and was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. He completed six landscape paintings. Nothing else is known about him. Source: WPA Artist’s Work Card.Works of Art Listed in CT Archives' database from James Pollock:Essex Boat Works:oilHouse in Killingworth...

 McCutcheon, Albert B. (1901-1990)Albert McCutcheon was born in Middletown, Connecticut on January 1, 1901. He attended the Durant School in Middletown. He also took private lessons in art, history, language, and music for four years. He went on to study at the Yale School of Fine Arts, continuing his studies at the Julian Academy in Paris in 1923. He married Hilde Anderson, an...

McKillop, William (1878-1937)William McKillop was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1878. He began his art studies in 1904 at the St. Louis Art School. He later studied in Paris at the Academy Julian under Jean Paul Laurens and at the Academy of Beaux Arts under Edward Laurent. Several of his paintings were exhibited at the Paris Salon. In 1913 he returned to the United Sta...

McLaughlin, Christopher (?)All that is known about Christopher McLaughlin is that he worked for the Connecticut FAP completing a mural entitled Nursery Tales at Undercliff Sanatorium and three panels of a mural entitled Raggedy Ann Storiesallocated to the Tuttle School in East Haven.Sources:  WPA Artist’s Work CardWorks of Art Listed in CT Archives' database from Christopher Mc...

McLoughlin, Gregory (?)Gregory McLoughlin completed a mural for the Westport Library. It is unknown whether it was painted under the WPA Federal Arts Project. There is evidence that he worked for the Public Works of Art Project, the predecessor to the more ambitious WPA. The dates of McLoughlin’s birth and death are unknown.Source: WPA Allocation CardWorks of Art Listed in CT A...

McManus, James Goodwin (1882-1958)James Goodwin McManus was born in Hartford, Connecticut on February 5, 1882. He studied art under W.G. Bunce, Montague Flagg, Robert B. Brandegee, and Walter Griffin. He would become one of the most influential local artists in Connecticut. In 1910 he helped found the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and was its president from 1935 until 1938. ...

Meek, Clifton (1888-1973)Clifton Meek was born on January 22, 1888, in Fremont, Ohio. He learned telegraphy at an early age and by the time he was 17, was working for a railroad company. Looking for a better career, he attended a Cleveland school of art and became a cartoonist for the Scripps-McRae Syndicate first in Cleveland and then in San Francisco. In the latter, he drew a...

Merriam, Harold (?)Little is known about Harold Merriam. He worked for the WPA Federal Arts Project starting on February 28, 1936, creating 23 works for the Index of American Design. He may have lived in Westbrook, Connecticut from 1936-June 1938 and in Lyme from 1939-40. His residence in Westbrook was damaged by the 1938 hurricane. On May 10, 1959, the New York Timesreported i...

Metelli, Guido (?)Guido Metelli lived in Hartford, Connecticut and worked for the Federal Arts Project on the Index of American Design from 1938-1939 under the supervision of John Matulis. His dates of birth and death are unknown. Sources WPA Artist’s Work Card; WPA Federal Arts Project Newsletter, September 1938.Works of Art Listed in CT Archives' database from Guido Metelli:S...

 Milici, Raymond (1914-1998)Little is known about Raymond Milici. He was born in 1914 in New Haven, Connecticut and was a brother of Salvatore Milici. While working in the National Youth Administration, he was assigned to the Federal Arts Project for a few months. He worked with clay. Milici died in New Haven in 1998.Sources: WPA time card; Social Security Death Index; Obituary...