1. Holger Cahill served as the national director of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration during the New Deal in the United States.
12 Facts About Holger Cahill
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Holger Cahill's mother had remarried to a younger man named Samson, and she and her son quarreled.
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Holger Cahill published a novel, Profane Earth in 1927 and, in 1930, "A Yankee Adventurer" a biography of Frederick Townsend Ward and his role in the Taiping Rebellion of 1861.
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Together with the galleries Edith Halpert of the Downtown Gallery, Holger Cahill published a monograph on Pop Hart in 1928, Max Weber in 1930 and Jules Pascin in 1931.
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Halpert and Holger Cahill launched a magazine called Space that ran for three issues in January, March and June, 1930.
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When Holger Cahill left Newark, he employed Dorothy Miller as his assistant on his various projects.
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At the First Municipal Art Exhibition, Miller stepped in as director when Holger Cahill landed in the hospital and was unable to continue which led to her later position as curator at the Museum of Modern Art.
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From August 1935 until April 1943, Holger Cahill was the national director of the Federal Art Project, the role for which he is best known today.
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Holger Cahill proved to be an imaginative, sensitive and skillful administrator.
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In 1938, Holger Cahill married Dorothy Canning Miller, curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Holger Cahill received a Guggenheim Fellowship for work on his novel Stone Dreamer, which was left unfinished at his death in 1960.
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Holger Cahill died on July 8,1960, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he is buried in the town's cemetery.