Watercolor, pencil, and ink illustration on paperThe Milwaukee Handicraft Project was a program of the Work Projects Administration (WPA), which was created in 1935 to put unemployed Americans to work. The "Costume Design" collection is comprised of pencil, ink, and watercolor illustrations on paper.This diptych portrays busts of a Roman god and a goddess. The woman portraying Minerva wears an elaborate gray headpiece with a sphynx which has red and white plumage. The man portraying Bacchus wears a wreath-crown made of grape vines and grapes.ColorMiss Peache Pageant70 Greek rehersal 1 yard, Miss Peache Pageant, Minerva Goddess of Wisdom #70, Note: If it is not possible to make the sphinx of cloth, painted silver, be modeled of papier-mache,...