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RICHARD H. JANSEN (1910-1988) RESETTLEMENT ADMINISTRATION / RURAL SLUMS ON WORN OUT LAND. Circa 1935. 24x36 3/4 inches, 61x93 1/2 cm. Condition A- / B+: repaired tears in margins; replaced loss in upper right corner. Framed. The Resettlement Administration was a New Deal entity created in 1935 to help families affected by the Great Depression, including those in the Dust Bowl. The organization had four divisions: Rural Rehabilitation, Rural Resettlement, Land Utilization, and Suburban Resettlement. Its primary aim was to move poor families into newly constructed communities. By 1937, the agency was deemed ineffective and folded into the Farm Security Administration. Jansen, an artist born in Wisconsin, produced paintings for the WPA that were exhibited around the country (primarily scenes from the Civilian Conservation Corps). He was an official war artist during the Second World War, worked for the National Park Service in the 1950s and was head illustrator for the Agricultural Department in the 1970s. Some of his murals in North Carolina and Florida adorn public buildings to this day.
