[3] Unlike the concurrent Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture, TRAP was a work-relief program, subject to the income and employment standards of the WPA.

[4] These projects could not be performed by the Section of Painting and Sculpture,[5]: 62  which commissioned art for new construction using a percentage of the budget overseen by the Treasury Department's procurement division.

[18] To maintain its high artistic standards, the Treasury Relief Art Project commissioned only a small number of artists—356 workers at its peak[2]: xxiv  in 1936.

Richmond Barthé, Ahron Ben-Shmuel, Paul Cadmus, Marion Greenwood, William Gropper, Reginald Marsh and Heinz Warneke were among the master artists who led projects.

[1] A complete list of projects and artists employed by TRAP is included in the final report held by the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art.