Udall Department of the Interior Building: Gropper 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.
William Gropper painted an enormous, 3-panel oil-on-canvas mural, entitled "Construction of a Dam". It was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts c 1936-37 and installed in 1940. The mural, which honors the work of the Bureau of Reclamation, hangs on the 2d floor across the south end of the main corridor.
Gropper was a left-leaning artist who celebrated the workers building the dam and in the rightmost panel...