- City:
- Jamaica, Queens, NY
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Murals
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Artists:
- A. Grant Arnold, Elizabeth Olds, Louis Lozowick, Nan Lurie, Philip Cheney, Raphael Soyer
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
The Queens Borough Public Library features a number of murals completed through the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The murals are: A. Grant Arnold’s “The Big Maple Tree” (1936), Philip Cheney’s “12th and Market Sts., Phila.” (1936), Louis Lozowick’s “Night Repairs” (1939), Nan Lurie’s “Next” (1937), Elizabeth Olds’s “Pittsburgh” (date unknown), and Raphael Soyer’s “Portrait of a Man (A Transient)” and “Working Girls Going Home” (both 1936).
The location and status of these works is presently unknown to Living New Deal.
Source notes
Bruce I. Buston, A New Deal for the Arts (Seattle: The University of Washington Press, 1997), 85, 86, 91, 92, 93.
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Judy
During the 1950s, I remember murals illustrating Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “Hiawatha,” on the walls of the chilren’s reading room in the old main library in Jamaica. I’ve often wondered what happened to them.