• High School of Fashion Industries Mural - New York NY
    The High School of Fashion Industries (formerly the Central High School of Needle Trades) is a New Deal building, which contains a well-known mural by Ernest Fiene. It is commonly believed to be a WPA Arts Project mural, but Gerald Markowitz, co-author of A New Deal for Art (1977), assures us that it is not, even though the spirit of the painting is so typically New Deal.  We have left it on our map because of the common confusion, which this may help allay. "In Manhattan, the fledgling coalition of government, industry, and organized labor created the Central High School of Needle Trades...
  • Post Office Mural - Canton MA
    The post office contains a 1937 Section of Fine Arts mural by Ernest Fiene. The mural "Paul Revere – 1801″ celebrates Paul Revere's copper industry in Canton.
  • Udall Department of the Interior Building: Fiene Murals - Washington DC
    The Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior building contains one of the largest collections of New Deal art in Washington DC by some of the finest American artists of the time. In 1938, Ernest Fiene painted a set of four oil-on-canvas murals depicting the land management functions of the Department of Interior, with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.  They are: "Winter Roundup," "Placer Mining," "Replanting Wasteland" and "Fighting Forest Fire."   They are installed on the Second Floor main corridor, north of the Grand Staircase. The Department of Interior Museum offers regular mural tours; check their website for information and registration. For...