On December 1, 1936 , a group of artists stormed the New York City office of the Works Progress Administration. They were protesting budget cuts to the Federal Art Project, a New Deal program that employed artists to create works for public spaces across the country. Of the 219 who were arrested, several gave fake names to the police, offering aliases such as Cézanne, Picasso, and Van Gogh—painters who had once staged their own kind of revolution. Among the jailed protesters was the painter Lee