Jaine Ahring Sites

The Federal Art Project (FAP) funded artist, Jaine Ahring, to create two murals for Newport Elementary School. Ahring created the oil-on-canvas murals Alice in Wonderland and Mother Goose in 1937. In The New Deal in Orange County, California (The History Press, 2014), Charles Epting writes, “Given the scarcity of New Deal public art in Orange County, Ahring’s paintings are quite remarkable” (p. 38). Alice in Wonderland depicts various characters from Lewis Carroll’s novel such as the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter. Mother Goose depicts characters from tales such as the Cat and the Fiddle and Miss Little Bo Peep.  Both murals...