- City:
- Long Beach, CA
- Site Type:
- Murals, Art Works
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Arts Project (FAP), Arts Programs
- Completed:
- 1938
- Artists:
- Jesse M. Lynch, Suzanne Miller, Wilbur Broderick
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1938, under the auspices of the WPA Federal Art Project (FAP), artist Suzanne Miller completed the fresco “A Visit to the Jungle” for Jane Addams Elementary School library in Long Beach, CA.
According to the Arts Council for Long Beach, “This story-telling mural illustrates an original children’s fable, written by the artist, where children encounter an assortment of wise and friendly animals. […] Contemporaneous accounts note that the artist wrote a story of children visiting the jungle specifically to accompany her mural at the Jane Addams School.”
Miller also completed murals at the old Lincoln Park Main Library and Franklin Classical Middle School in Long Beach.
Source notes
Originally posted in the New Deal Art Registry
A Visit to the Jungle (Arts Council for Long Beach)
David Haldane, Gallery Rediscovers Heritage of Depression-Era Artworks, Los Angeles Times, December 1, 1991.
Site originally submitted by Gabriel Milner on October 13, 2014.
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Delores J. Reynolds
Daisy F
I was the principal of Jane Adams Elementary School in Long Brach, California for eight years during the 1990s. Our students, staff, and community celebrated the wonderful mural in our school library. We were very proud of it, and it helped the history of our school and our nation come alive for all of us. It was precious to all.
I was a student in Kindergarten in 2001. How nostalgic! Brings back so many nice childhood memories. Thank you!!