- City:
- Long Island City, New York City, Queens, NY
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Sculpture and Bas Relief
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1939
- Artist:
- Cesare Stea
- Site Survival:
- Extant
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.
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).
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 3, 2022.
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