Mythological: Minerva Goddess Of Wisdom, Costume Design
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- Created Date
- 1935-1939
- Description
Watercolor, pencil, and ink illustration on paper
The Milwaukee Handicraft Project was a program of the Work Projects Administration (WPA), which was created in 1935 to put unemployed Americans to work. The "Costume Design" collection is comprised of pencil, ink, and watercolor illustrations on paper.
This diptych portrays busts of a Roman god and a goddess. The woman portraying Minerva wears an elaborate gray headpiece with a sphynx which has red and white plumage. The man portraying Bacchus wears a wreath-crown made of grape vines and grapes.
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Miss Peache Pageant
70 Greek rehersal 1 yard, Miss Peache Pageant, Minerva Goddess of Wisdom #70, Note: If it is not possible to make the sphinx of cloth, painted silver, be modeled of papier-mache, Bulfinch "Age of Fable" p 131; 77 Greek, v 3 1/2, Bacchus #77, M.Holan, TED.
Bulfinch "Age of Fable" p 131
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- Creator
Milwaukee WPA Handicraft Project
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- Special Collections. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Wisconsin Arts Projects of the WPA - Publisher
- Milwaukee Handicraft Project / Works Progress Administration Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Type
- image
- Format
- Watercolors
- Language
- English
- Rights
- http://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Milwaukee WPA Handicraft Project. Mythological: Minerva Goddess Of Wisdom,Costume Design. 1935-1939. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/wpa/id/23. (Accessed April 20, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Milwaukee WPA Handicraft Project, (1935-1939) Mythological: Minerva Goddess Of Wisdom,Costume Design. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/wpa/id/23
- MLA citation style
- Milwaukee WPA Handicraft Project. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/wpa/id/23>.