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Re: WPA / Federal Arts Project

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From: Kevan Nitzberg (knitzber_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Wed May 02 2001 - 04:01:26 PDT

Here are some resources regarding the artwork that was federally
commissioned aspart of the WPA that are MN specific:

Luca Wiley - painted a mural in the Miller Vocational H.S. in Mpls. entitled
"Occupations"

Murals in the lobby of the Northwestern National Life Insurance Bldg. in
Mpls., by H.W. Rubens - depicted the Mississippi as the 'water highway over
which civilization came to the northwest'

Murals in the waiting room in the Gateway Tourist Building Tourist
Information Bureau by David Granahan, depicting incidents in MN. history

2 murals in the Mpls. Armory dome using the fresco technique by local
artists Elsa Jemme and Lucia Wiley

The playroom of the Lymanhurst Clinic in Mpls. illustrated with a Mother
Goose muralk by artist Mit\riam Ibling in 1937, as a part of the Fedral Art
Project

St. Paul's City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse contain murals done by
John Norton of Chicago

Edward Holm's murals in the Gilette State Hospital for Crippled Children

- check the "WPA Guide to MN" (MN Historical Society Pres, 1985) for more
  specific information 

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