ABSTRACT
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, although a private enterprise, had been involved, since its inception, with government programmes in the Arts. In collaboration mainly with the Works Progress Administration, it promoted exhibitions of housing programmes, non-western and primitive art, photographs from the Farm Security Administration, and Government Posters. Its interest in promoting Modernism was happily in agreement with many of the policies of the ‘New Deal’. Roosevelt’s policies of social reform became inextricably linked to Modernism, as had similar policies in Europe.
