- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Sculpture and Bas Relief
- New Deal Agencies:
- Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA), Arts Programs
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1938
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The exterior of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) building is enhanced by several works of art commissioned by the Treasury Department’s Section of Fine Arts in 1938.
The large, cast aluminum grilles on the Constitution Avenue entrance have six images designed by William McVey portraying commercial transportation methods: Columbus’s 15th-century ships, an 18th-century merchant ship, a 19th-century clipper ship, a paddlewheel steamship, an early 20th-century ocean liner, and a seaplane.
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