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Completion Year: 1948

Lamb County Library Sculptures – Littlefield TX

The historic Lamb County Library building in Littlefield, Texas houses an example of New Deal artwork: “West Texas,” a set of two New Deal tymstone sculptures completed by William McVey in 1948.

Project type: Art Works, Sculpture and Bas Relief
Agency: Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA), Arts Programs

Udall Department of the Interior Building: Sheets 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.  Millard Sheets produced a four-panel, oil-on-canvas mural, “The… read more

Project type: Art Works, Murals
Agency: Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA), Arts Programs

West Heating Plant – Washington DC

From the General Services Administration Web site: The West Heating Plant is a six-story, near monolithic structure realized in a vestigial Art Deco style. The solidity of the brick exterior is relieved by rhythmic, linear fenestration – the whole depending… read more

Project type: Auxiliary Civic Facilities, Civic Facilities, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Federal Works Agency (FWA), Public Works Funding

Rincon Annex Murals – San Francisco CA

The former Rincon Annex post office (now Rincon Center) has an extraordinary set of murals, 27 large panels along the upper wall of the lobby of the old post office.  They tell the “History of California” from the Spanish conquest of… read more

Project type: Art Works, Murals
Agency: Treasury Department, Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP), Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA), Arts Programs, Federal & Military Operations

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