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Rutgers University Geology Museum Murals – New Brunswick NJ

Project type: Art Works, Education and Health, Murals, Museums
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
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Description

Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist Alfred Poledo Boonton created a series of 21 paintings — “Reconstructions” — for the Geology Museum of Rutgers University, ca. 1936. The present status of this work is unknown to Living New Deal.

Source notes

"The Dawn," a New Jersey WPA publication; June 1936 issue, page 21. Found at the Jersey City Public Library's New Jersey Room.

Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 7, 2015.

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Location Info

Geology Hall, 2nd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Coordinates: 40.497916, -74.446437

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