- City:
- New York, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Sculpture and Bas Relief
- New Deal Agencies:
- Arts Programs, Work Relief Programs, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1938
- Artists:
- Jeno Juszko, William Mues
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
A great number of improvements to the General Grant National Memorial (“Grant’s Tomb”) were undertaken by the WPA between 1935 and 1939. As the National Park Service’s David Kahn (1980) explains:
“In 1938 the Federal Art Project selected artists William Mues and Jeno Juszko to design the busts of William T. Sherman, Phillip H. Sheridan, George H. Thomas, James B. McPherson, and Edward Ord. The WPA installed five busts in the circular wall of the atrium surrounding the sarcophagi. After the many contributions of the WPA, the Grant Monument Association held a re-dedication of the tomb on April 27, 1939.”
The Riverside Park Conservancy website reports that “murals of Grant’s battles were painted on the interior walls around the same time.”
Source notes
Kahn, David M., Curator, Manhattan Cities, General Grant National Memorial: Historical Resource Study, January 1980 (National Park Service), pp.164-174. https://kermitproject.org/newdeal/riversidepark/grantstomb1.html General Grant National Memorial (Grant's Tomb) at Riverside Park Conservancy website.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish, Frank da Cruz on May 14, 2014.
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