California Art Research was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project designed to raise awareness of artists based in San Francisco. The project, carried out between February 1936 and May 1938, was headed by art critic Junius S. Craven and art reviewer Gene Hailey. UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library has created this website dedicated to the archival material and research collected and produced during the project, including photographs of artwork and biographical information about featured artists. Perhaps the best place to start exploring this collection is on the site's homepage, which features the original 1936 introduction to the project alongside an essay about the project by art historian Ellen Schwartz. From here, visitors can visit pages dedicated to individual artists involved in the project via the Artist tab. Each artist's page includes numerous digitized artworks, along with a bibliography for those interested in further reading.