New Deal Projects – Living New Deal

Hatch Elementary School Mural – Oak Park IL

This site originally displayed four oil on canvas murals, entitled “American Characters,” painted by Mildred Waltrip in 1938 with funding from the WPA Federal Art Project. Two of the murals were removed in 1995 and placed in storage after a… read more

Ravinia School Mural – Highland Park IL

Mildred Waltrip painted the two-panel, oil-on-canvas mural “Robin Hood” (each panel measuring 5’3″ x 6’11”) in 1940 for the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project. “Two murals commissioned by the WPA, placed above the twin wooden benches of a niche… read more