murals drawing upon the geographical environment were painted in public buildings throughout the country, and some 10,000 artists and craft workers were sustained through the Great Depression. An entire generation of artists was nurtured, their work exhibited, and an expanded public for art was created. In 1938, Cahill married Dorothy Canning Miller, curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. The following year, he took a leave of absence from the WPA to stay in New York City and direct a large survey exhibition at the 1939 World’s Fair, American Art Today. Through Miller, he continued to meet new artists and he was an avid and interested spectator of all of the programming at the Museum of Modern Art. Writing When the Federal Arts Project ended in 1943, Cahill returned to New York to concentrate on writing novels and essays. Hampered by various illnesses after his busy tenure as Director of the Federal Art Project and a severe heart attack in 1947, he managed to complete two novels, Look South to the Polar Star, in 1947, and The Shadow of My Hand, in 1956, set in the Midwest of his youth. In the same year he began studying poetry with Stanley Kunitz, and taped a memoir for the Columbia University Oral History Project. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship for work on his novel Stone Dreamer, which was left unfinished at his death in 1960. Cahill died on July 8, 1960 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts where he is buried in the town's cemetery. Bibliography 1921-1925 Shadowland magazine. August 1921. "John Sloan: Man and Artist" by Edgar Cahill. pp. 11, 71-73. Shadowland magazine. December 1921. "A High Northern Renaissance on Iceland". The Nation. August 17, 1921 (volume 113, number 2928). "Purity in the Sixth Printing". Hunger by Knut Hamsun, reviewed by Edgar H. Cahill. pp. 181–182. The Nation, October 26, 1921 (volume 113, number 2938). "Artists and Business Men". Shallow Soil by Knut Hamsun. New York Herald Tribune. November 27, 1921. "Hunger From Hamsun," Dreamers by Knut Hamsun reviewed by Holger Cahill. The Bookman, January 1922 (volume 54, number 5). "Icelandic Renaissance". pp. 496–497. The New York Times Book Review. February 19, 1922. "Hanging out the Crepe for Europe". pp. 12, 23. International Studio. March 1922 (volume 75, number 299). "America Has Its Primitives". pp. 80–83. (Article about the Pueblo-Indian art in the Exhibition of Independent Artists.) Shadowland magazine.