Edward Bruce (New Deal)

Edward Bright Bruce was the administrator of the New Deal art projects of the United States Department of the Treasury: the Public Works of Art Project (1933–1934), the Section of Painting and Sculpture (1934–1943), and the Treasury Relief Art Project (1935–1938). Ned Bruce was a successful lawyer and entrepreneur before giving up his business career altogether at the age of 43 to become an artist. However, like most artists during the Depression, he found it impossible to make a living making art, and he grudgingly returned to business as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. In 1932 he joined the Treasury Department, where his expertise in monetary policy and art guided federal efforts to employ workers in the visual arts during the Great Depression in the United States.

13 April 1879

Born on the same birth date (13 April 1879): Oswald Bruce Cooper

Born on the same birth day (13 April): Darrun Hilliard • Eudora Welty • Friedrich Graf von Wrangel • Glenn Howerton • Jeanne Guyon • Madalyn Murray O'Hair • Michael Stuart Brown • Mikhail Shufutinsky • Philip Norman (author) • Rosemary Haughton

Born in the same month (April 1879): Bernhard Gregory • Bernhard Gregory • Coenraad Hiebendaal • Eric Campbell (actor) • Gustav Goßler • Henri Tauzin • Korneli Kekelidze • Melville Henry Cane • Oswald Bruce Cooper • Paul Poiret • Richárd Weisz • Thomas Beecham