Juliana Force | |
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_(less_cropped).jpg.webp) Force in about 1920 | |
| Born | Juliana Rieser December 25, 1876 |
| Died | August 28, 1948 Manhattan, New York |
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Juliana Force (December 25, 1876 – August 28, 1948) was the founding director of the Whitney Museum of Art in the United States.[1] During the Great Depression she was the administrator of Region 2 (New York City and State) of the New Deal-era Public Works of Art Project.[2]
Force was born to Maxmillian Rieser and Juliana Schmutz in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, on December 25, 1876.[3]: 645 She died of cancer in Doctors Hospital in Manhattan on August 28, 1948; she was 71.[3]: 646
References
- ↑ Berman, Avis (1990). Rebels on Eighth Street : Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Internet Archive. New York: Atheneum. ISBN 978-0-689-12086-2.
- ↑ Public Works of Art Project. Report of the Assistant Director of the Treasury to Federal Emergency Relief Administrator, December 8, 1933 – June 30, 1934. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1934. pp. 3–4.
- 1 2 Edward James (1971). Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary, volume 1, A–F. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674627345.
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