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Maurice Merlin - Mobilizing Michigan for farm and factory

Mobilizing Michigan for farm and factory (1941-1943)

Maurice Merlin (American, 1909 - 1947)
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Maurice Merlin

Maurice Merlin was born in Sioux City, Iowa, on September 26, 1909 and drew from an early age, receiving encouragement from his parents and artists who saw his work. He completed his academic training in art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He worked in water-color, in silk-screen, created paintings in egg-tempera, poster art for the WPA in Detroit, as well as lithography. The lithographs were mostly done in 1939 during which time he collaborated and worked with five other Detroit artists, Ed Jaeger, Frank Cassara, Barbara Wilson, Henri Bernstein and Walter Speck. They worked together in lithography, learning techniques from one another and helping one another in production. Other artists with whom he associated were Bill Jordan, Gilbert Roche, and Mitchell Siporin. After serving in the army during WWII, he came to California in the mid 1940s where he settled with his family.

Maurice Merlin’s early death in 1947 in Los Angeles, brought an end to a promising career in the fine arts. He left a good number of lithographs, as well as paintings in egg tempera and gouache, that reflect the distress of the Depression era. Many of them are images of city life, while others show dreamlike views of empty farmland, reflecting his Midwest origins, but places which were lost to a generation of displaced Americans who could not return to an agricultural way-of-life. Other images are industrial or factory scenes more characteristic of the Depression in Detroit.

In Collection: Works Progress Administration (WPA) Posters (View all 81)

Expecting; Get the right advice from the right sources, your doctor or health bureau

Expecting; Get the right advice from the right sources, your doctor or health bureau (1936-1938)

Anonymous
Be clean in everything that concerns your baby

Be clean in everything that concerns your baby (1936-1939)

Erik Hans Krause (American, 1899-1990)
October’s ‘bright blue weather’ A good time to read!

October’s ‘bright blue weather’ A good time to read! (1936)

Albert M. Bender (American, 20th Century)
Learn to swim campaign

Learn to swim campaign (1936-1940)

John Wagner (American, 20th Century)
Ready to serve – trained, efficient workers

Ready to serve – trained, efficient workers (1939)

Cleo Sara (American, 20th Century)
Theatre of Music

Theatre of Music (1936-1941)

Anonymous
The President’s birthday ball

The President’s birthday ball (1936-1939)

Anonymous
Pueblo Turtle dancers from an Indian painting, New Mexico

Pueblo Turtle dancers from an Indian painting, New Mexico (1939)

Louis Siegriest (American, 1899 -1989)
WPA poster design showing the head and hands of a woman holding flowers and wheat

WPA poster design showing the head and hands of a woman holding flowers and wheat (1936-1941)

Anonymous
Fight tuberculosis – obey the rules of health

Fight tuberculosis – obey the rules of health (1936-1941)

Anonymous
East side, West side exhibition of photographs

East side, West side exhibition of photographs (1938)

Anthony Velonis (American, 1911-1997)
War industry needs water

War industry needs water (1941-1943)

Glenn Stuart Pearce (American, 1909-1986)
WPA Federal Theatre presents ‘It can’t happen here’

WPA Federal Theatre presents ‘It can’t happen here’ (1936)

Richard Halls (American, 1906 - )
Protect her from tuberculosis

Protect her from tuberculosis (1936-1938)

Erik Hans Krause (American, 1899-1990)
Pomo Indian basket, California

Pomo Indian basket, California (1939)

Louis Siegriest (American, 1899 -1989)
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