Walter Pyle Jr. Sites

Currently a community center, what was previously known as Claymont Middle School, Claymont High School, Claymont School (in that order, going backwards) houses an example of New Deal artwork: a pair of Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals by Walter Pyle, Jr. The works were installed in the school around 1935 with the aim of inspiring people who were suffering through the Great Depression. The murals were restored in 2013-2014. According to the project's original contributor, the works are "located upstairs in the Executive Offices (or at least they were when I worked there in 2005) in a back stairway that no one...

A collection of murals was painted for what is now the John Bassett Moore School in Smyrna, Delaware, commissioned by the WPA. Produced by Brandywine River School artists Walter Pyle, Jr., Stafford Good, and Edward Grant, the murals are entitled: "Shipping Industry" "Scenes of Agriculture" "Cavalcade of Delaware" "Student Activities" "School Scenes" "Heritage of Shakespeare" The works were restored during extensive school district renovations in the 2000s.