Entrance with two WPA reliefs
The Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant entrance, flanked by two WPA-commissioned Cesare Stea reliefs
Description
In 1939 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissioned a set of four cast reliefs for inclusion on the facade of the then-new Bowery Bay Pumping Station in Queens, New York. The works, which depict men at work engaging in sewage management jobs, were created by Cesare Stea and still grace the front of the building along Berrian Blvd.
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Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant: WPA-commissioned relief by Cesare Stea (1)
Relief 1
Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant: WPA-commissioned relief by Cesare Stea (1)
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Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant: WPA-commissioned relief by Cesare Stea (2)
Relief 2
Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant: WPA-commissioned relief by Cesare Stea (2)
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Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant: WPA-commissioned relief by Cesare Stea (3)
Relief 3
Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant: WPA-commissioned relief by Cesare Stea (3)
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Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant: WPA-commissioned relief by Cesare Stea (4)
Relief 4
Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant: WPA-commissioned relief by Cesare Stea (4)
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Front of the Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant featuring all four WPA-commissioned reliefs by Cesare Stea
Front of Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant, with four WPA reliefs
Front of the Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant featuring all four WPA-commissioned reliefs by Cesare Stea
Source notes
Bruce I. Bustard, A New Deal for the Arts (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997), 57.
"The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere," Penn State Press, 2006 (pg. 121).
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 3, 2022.
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