Rutgers University Geology Museum Murals – New Brunswick NJ

City:
New Brunswick, NJ

Site Type:
Education and Health, Art Works, Museums, Murals

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Artist:
Alfred Poledo Boonton

Quality of Information:
Minimal

Site Survival:
Unknown

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.

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

Location Info


Geology Hall, 2nd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Coordinates: 40.497916, -74.446437

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