Rainy Day

Yvonne Twining was one of many women who had the opportunity to thrive under the Federal Art Project, thanks in part to WPA Director Holger Cahill's egalitarian stance towards hiring. The New York City-born artist worked at least eight hours a day, completing nearly seventy paintings and drawings between 1935 and 1942. Appropriately for this industrious artist, manual labor, a favorite subject for New Dealers, finds its place in "Rainy Day"--within a bucolic setting that calls to mind the art of the Regionalists, and Grant Wood in particular.