Poster for Federal Art Project Works Progress Administration exhibition of sculpture at the Federal Art Gallery, 225 West 57 St., New York City, showing Maurice Glickman's "Destitute (Mother and child)." In the depression of the 1930's a federal stimulus stimulus program was created, the WPA. The Works Projects Administration (WPA) funded theaters, art and inspired lots of classic reminders of a wounded USA struggling colorfully to come out of the Depression.