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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Elliott Anderson Means
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Elliott Anderson Means

American, 1904 - 1962
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Place of BirthStamford, Texas
Place of DeathNew York, New York
Elliott Means was born in Texas and worked as an itinerant sign and mural painter before studying art at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He eventually settled in New York City where he worked as an artist for the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the 1930s.