- City:
- Brooklyn, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Sculpture and Bas Relief
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
“In the rotunda of the [Laboratory Building] are bronze busts of Linnaeus, Darwin, Mendel, Asa Gray, Robert Brown, and John Torrey–the work of WPA sculptors.”
Source notes
The WPA Guide to New York City: The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s New York. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982: 488.Contribute to this Site
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