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Images of New Deal Art
A web search for “New Deal Art” brings up hundreds of links.
This curated Resources guide aims to highlight the most useful, the most reliable, and the most generally interesting. Information about specific works, artists, or exhibits is available to everyone with a web browser. Your suggestions for additions to this page are welcome.
Wide-Ranging General Sites
Catalog of pre-1962 murals located in GSA Buildings
Indians at the Post Office, National Postal Museum
Specific States or Cities
California New Deal Murals and Reliefs
5 New Deal Post Office Murals (Appalachia)
A Common Canvas: Pennsylvania’s New Deal Post Office Murals
Philadelphia’s New Deal Murals
Rediscovering the People’s Art: New Deal Murals in Pennsylvania’s Post Offices
San Antonio’s New Deal Post Office Murals
The New Deal and the Arts in Seattle
How Depression-Era Art Lives on Across the Garden State (New Jersey)
Hope on the Wall: Connecticut’s New Deal Post Office Murals
The New Deal in New York City, 1933-1943
When Art Worked: New Deal-era Paintings at the Minnesota History Center
New Deal Left Its Stamp on Local Post Offices (Indiana)
The Depression-era art of the Federal Art Project in Minnesota
Federal Art Project (Louisiana)
Alabama’s New Deal post office art: How it got there, what survives
A New Deal for Los Angeles (video)
Abstract Murals of the WPA (New York City)
New Deal Murals in Governmental Buildings in Northern California
The Great Arkansas Post Office Tour
Depression Legacy: Nebraska’s Post Office Art
New Deal Arts & Culture Programs in Kansas
Articles of Interest
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum
Lost, Missing, and Restored New Deal Post Office Murals
Off the Wall: New Deal Post Office Murals
Artists Helped Life America Out of the Great Depression. Could That Happen Again?
Saving WPA Murals to Share Our Nation’s History
The Art of the Great Depression
The Myths about FDR’s New Deal Arts Programs Are Misleading
Federal Art Project of Works Progress Admin
The Art of Propaganda: Painting the New Deal
The Federal Art Project in Washington State
How the Federal Art Project Gave American Artists Hope During the Great Depression
Artists
Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene
Harold Lehman: New Deal Murals
Wisconsin Post Office Mural Artists
Stephen Mopope, U.S. Post Office Murals, Anadarko OK
Books
Wall to Wall America: Post Office Murals in the Great Depression by Karal Ann Marling, University of Minnesota Press
The New Deal Art Projects. An Anthology of Memoirs by Francis V. O’Connor, Smithsonian Institution Press
1934: A New Deal for Artists by Roger Kennedy and Ann Prentice Wagner, Smithsonian and D. Giles Ltd.
Democratic Art: The New Deal’s Influence on American Culture by Sharon Ann Musher, University of Chicago Press
Wisconsin Post Office Murals by David W. Gates, Jr.
Tennessee Post Office Murals by David W Gates, Jr.
New Deal Art in North Carolina by Anita Price Davis
Nebraska’s Post Office Murals: Born of the Depression, Fostered by the New Deal by L. Robert Puschendorf
New Deal Art in the Northwest: The WPA and Beyond by Margaret E. Bullock, University of Washington
New Deal Art in Arizona by Betsy Fahlman, University of Arizona Press
New Deal Art in North Carolina by Anita Price Davis. McFarland
African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs by Mary Ann Calo, Penn State University