- State:
- WASHINGTON-DC
- Site Type:
- Murals, Art Works
- New Deal Agencies:
- Arts Programs, Public Works of Art Project (PWAP)
- Completed:
- 1934
- Artist:
- Lily Furedi
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Lily Furedi’s oil-on-canvas mural, “Subway,” was painted in 1934 under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Project – a relief program to hire unemployed artists. The Smithsonian American Art Museum received Subway and other surviving artworks in the 1960s when they were transferred from the agencies that had previously displayed them. Furedi’s painting was transferred from the National Park Service, U. S. Department of the Interior, though it is not known where it was originally hung.
Source notes
Adler, J. (June 2009). 1934: The Art of the New Deal. Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved Dec. 23, 2019 from: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/1934-the-art-of-the-new-deal-132242698/
Smithsonian American Art Museum. Lily Furedi, Subway. Retrieved Dec. 23, 2019 from: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/subway-8731
Lily Furedi. Wikimedia. Retrieved from:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Subway,_Furedi,_1934.jpg
Site originally submitted by Elena Ion on January 19, 2020.
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