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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Charles Russell Hardman Papers #5611, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from James Coward in November 2014 (Acc. 102131) and Mark Bridger in February 2023 (Acc. 20230303.1).

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Encoded by: Laura Smith

Updated: June 2019, September 2023

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• Artists--United States--20th century.
• Federal Art Project.
• Hardman, Charles Russell.
• Public art--Alabama--Guntersville.
• Public art--Florida--Miami.
• United States. Works Progress Administration.

Charles Russell Hardman won a regional art competition in 1938 and was commissioned by the Works Progress Administration to oversee art installations during the 1930s and 1940s. He created two paintings himself for the United States Postal Service, one in Miami, Fla., in 1940, called “Episodes from the History of Florida,” and another in Guntersville, Ala., in 1947, called “Indians Receiving Gifts from the Spanish.” In the 1950s, Hardman worked as the art director for the University of North Carolina’s public television station. He retired in 1972.

The collection of Florida artist Charles Russell Hardman contains original artwork, sketchbooks, notes, and slight, scattered correspondence. Some of the loose sketches and paintings in the collection served as Hardman's studies for two murals commissioned during the Great Depression by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project for post office buildings in Miami, Fla. and Guntersville, Ala. Also included are photographs of WPA-commissioned public art.

• Image folders: PF-05611/1-3
• Oversize box: OB-05611/1
• Oversize paper folders: OPF-05611/1-2
• Volume (SV-05611/1)