Regionalism Graph Lab

The Regionalism Graph Lab visualizes the hidden patterns of American art during the New Deal (1933–1943).

During this decade, four federal art programs — PWAP, WPA‑FAP, TRAP, and the Treasury Section — documented thousands of artists across the United States. For the first time in American history, artists were recorded in a centralized system with information about their region, medium, gender, and program participation.

This dataset is built entirely from those verified federal records.
No speculation. No invented biographies. No postwar material.

The Graph Lab reveals what the New Deal programs themselves saw:
Where artists lived, what they made, how they worked, and how American Regionalism took shape across the country.

These graphs do not represent all of American art — only the artists who participated in New Deal programs. But within that decade, the data forms a complete, population‑level snapshot of American creativity during the Great Depression.

By visualizing this information, the Graph Lab helps researchers, students, and the public understand how Regionalism emerged, spread, and differed from state to state.

Every graph you see in the sidebar "Graph Library" is built from verified New Deal data.

This is American Regionalism as the federal government recorded it — not as later historians remembered it.