1930s WPA Plaster Model Spanish Basque Casa Torre soda fired with a hand-painted face

with a hand-painted face

presumably representing the trunk of a tree

Truly a lovely thing

established by Manson around 1910

1930s WPA Plaster Model Spanish Basque Casa Torre soda fired with a hand-painted faceI am 99. 9% certain this painted plaster model was produced by the WPA from what I have learned, WPA artists produced thousands of these models in the 1930s as educational visual aids for schools, libraries and museums. The models represented both specific iconic pieces of architectures and a wide variety of examples of prototypical housing styles, ancient to modern, from around the world. (I have included two other examples in photos.) Here I believe