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Gallery Talk | Reframing Artists of the WPA with Katherine Banerjee

Thursday, September 17, 2026

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Location: The Rockwell Museum

Open to the public | Included with regular Museum admission | Registration encouraged

Join Katherine Banerjee, Associate Curator, for a gallery talk highlighting Art at Work: Reframing Artists of the WPA. Through paintings, prints, and photographs, explore how artists employed by New Deal programs depicted labor, community, and the American landscape, capturing hardship and hope during the Great Depression.

Event image: Detail. William Gropper (1897-1977), Construction of the Dam (study for mural, the Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.), 1938, oil on canvas, 27 1⁄4 x 87 1⁄4 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 1965.18.11A-C

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