- City:
- Brooklyn, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Murals
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Arts Project (FAP), Arts Programs
- Completed:
- 1937
- Artists:
- Abraham Lishinsky, Abram Lerner
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
“The WPA would make another addition to the Samuel J. Tilden High School, this time in the form of a mural for the auditorium. The project took nearly two years to complete, as muralist Abraham Lishinsky, working with his colleague Irving A. Block, designed and painted a 2,400-square-foot mural depicting “Major Influences in Civilization” for the auditorium. Among the six assistants they employed over time was the artist Abram “Al” Lerner.”
Source notes
Bruce Bustard, A New Deal for the Arts (Seattle: University of WA Press, 1997), 108.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Tilden_High_School
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