The Great Depression was a very difficult period for many, and affected a large number of American artists and graphic designers due to the lack of commercial work. In 1935 the US federal government created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) with the aim to provide job opportunities for the unemployed as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal. The fall of the same year saw the launch of the WPA Federal Arts Project, which enabled visual artists, musicians, actors and…