- City:
- Laconia, NH
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Murals
- New Deal Agencies:
- Arts Programs, Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA)
- Completed:
- 1941
- Artists:
- Musa McKim, Philip Guston
Description
The Treasury Section of Fine Arts funded two oil-on-canvas murals for this building: “Pulpwood Logging,” painted by Philip Guston in 1941; and “Wildlife in White Mountains,” painted by Musa McKim in 1941.
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Gabriel Milner
Bruce Weber
Jimmy Emerson
Ginnie Lupi
We would like to visit and speak with someone about the Murals. Is there a specific day of the week and time that would be best in May?
Kim
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Kim Herald, Assistant to Sally Radic Catalogue Raisonné, and Website Manager for the Guston Foundation.
For this information, you should contact the building directly: (603) 528-8721
Hi:
Apparently, these were painted while the Gustons were briefly residing in Woodstock, New York, The common explanation has been that Philip Guston and his wife Musa went to Woodstock to work on their easel paintings.
I think the case is that they did that, plus work on this mural series and some other mural work. Do you have any details on the process in which they were created?
Bruce Weber
These murals evidently were moved to the new Forestry Department headquarters in Campton, NH.
These murals are currently in the U.S. General Services Administration Fine Arts Warehouse in Washington, D.C. They are being restored and will be installed in the James C. Cleveland Federal Building in Concord, NH in November, 2021.
Ginnie Lupi, Director, NH State Council on the Arts
These murals are currently on exhibit at the Currier Museum of Art and are planned to be moved to the James C. Cleveland Federal Building in Concord, NH in December. https://currier.org/exhibition/wpa-in-nh/
Ginnie Lupi, Director, NH State Council on the Arts