Borough Hall Murals (missing) – Brooklyn NY

City:
Brooklyn, New York City, NY

Site Type:
Art Works, Murals

New Deal Agencies:
Arts Programs, Work Relief Programs, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Artist:
Alois Fabry Jr.

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

“During May and June 1946, two 900-square-foot murals depicting three centuries of local history were unceremoniously removed from the cavernous two-story rotunda of Brooklyn Borough Hall less than a decade after their creation.

The murals, titled “Brooklyn Past and Present,” were the work of a relatively unknown artist named Alois Fabry Jr., who had been commissioned to produce them through the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Sprawling and detailed, interspersed with touches of whimsy and based on three months of prodigious research, they imbued the borough’s central administrative office building with a sweeping monumentality.”

The murals are missing and were possibly destroyed.

Source notes

"The Other Battle of Brooklyn"; The New York Times, April 9, 2006. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/nyregion/thecity/09mura.html

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 28, 2014.

Location Info


209 Joralemon St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Kings County

Coordinates: 40.692816, -73.990295

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