Holger Cahill
Iceland-born American curator (1887-1960) · Iceland · On the map · Writers · Died at 73
Sveinn Kristján Bjarnarsson, also known as Edgar Holger Cahill, was an Icelandic-American curator, writer and arts administrator. He served as the national director of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration during the New Deal in the United States.
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![Cahill opened the first of 12 forums on the economic status of artists in the U.S., "Shall the Artist Survive?" (November 22, 1936)[3]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/WPA-Forum-for-Artists-poster-1936.jpg/500px-WPA-Forum-for-Artists-poster-1936.jpg)
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About this person
Country
Iceland
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1887 to 1960 · aged 73