Description
A mosaic mural entitled “Early California,” created by Stanton MacDonald-Wright for the Thomas Edison Middle School, has been lost. Stanton MacDonald-Wright was an unemployed artist hired by the Federal Art Project (FAP) in 1937.
Source notes
Marilyn Wyman, A New Deal for Art in Southern California: Murals and Sculpture under Government Patronage. Doctoral dissertation, University of Southern California, 1982.
Steven Gelber, "Working to prosperity: New Deal murals in California,"
California History, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Summer, 1979), pp. 98-127
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