List of New Deal murals

The List of New Deal murals is a list of murals created in the United States as part of a federally sponsored New Deal project. This list excludes murals placed in post offices, which are listed in List of United States post office murals. Source is Park and Markowitz’s Democratic Vistas unless otherwise specified.

Arkansas

Delaware

District of Columbia

New Deal art was installed in the Social Security building, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Justice building, the Department of Labor building, the Apex building, the Government Printing Office Annex, the Home Owners Loan Corporation, the National Zoological Park, the District of Columbia Recorder of Deeds building, the Procurement Division Building, and the War Department.

Elsewhere than government building

Location	Mural title	Image	Artist	Date	Notes	NRHP listed
Howard University	Emancipation of the American Negro		Daniel Boza	1938

Social Security Building

Location	Mural title	Image	Artist	Date	Notes	NRHP listed
Social Security Building	Sports Related to Food		Dorothy Farr, Fred Farr	1941	Stored in National Museum of American Art
Social Security Building	Wealth of the Nation, Security of the People		Seymour Fogel	1942
Social Security Building	Activities of Four Parts of the Country		Gertrude Goodrich	1943	Stored in National Museum of American Art
Social Security Building	Reconstruction and Well-Being of the Family		Philip Guston	1942	Stage curtain in auditorium	non-mural, non-sculpture
Social Security Building	Mountains in Snow		Jenne Magafan, Ethel Magafan	1949
Social Security Building	Work, the Family, and Social Security, Child Labor, Unemployment, and Old Age		Ben Shahn	1942	fresco

Main Interior Building

Location	Mural title	Image	Artist	Date	Notes	NRHP listed	-
Main Interior Building	Dance Festival		James Auchiah	1939			-
Main Interior Building	Conservation of the National Parks		Gifford Beal	1941			-
Main Interior Building	Conservation—Western Lands		Louis Bouche	1938	”in storage” circa 1984		-
Main Interior Building	Desert, Irrigation, Gathering Dates, Apples		Nicolai Cikovsky	1938			-
Main Interior Building	Deer, Peyote Bird and Symbols, Stealing Horses, Flute Player, Courting, Buffalo Hunt		Woodrow Crumbo	1940	Native American artist		-
Main Interior Building	Rush for the Oklahoma Land—1889 and The Homesteading		John Steuart Curry	1939			-
Main Interior Building	Bureau of Indian Affairs		Maynard Dixon	1939			-
Main Interior Building	Placer Mining, Fighting Forest Fire, and Winter Round-Up		Ernest Fiene	1938			-
Main Interior Building	Construction of the Dam		William Gropper	1939			-
Main Interior Building	“Indian themes”		Velino Herrera	1939	Nine panels		-
Main Interior Building	Singing Love Songs and Apache Round Dance		Allan C. Houser	1940			-
Main Interior Building	Indian Murals		Allan C. Houser and Gerald Nailor	date unknown			-
Main Interior Building	National Parks		David McCosh	1940
Main Interior Building	Indian Theme		Stevan Mopope	1939
Main Interior Building	Hunting Ground and Initiation Ceremony		Gerald Nailor	1940
Main Interior Building	Alaska and Insular Possessions		James Michael Newell	1939
Main Interior Building	Conservation of Wildlife		Henry Varnum Poor	1939	Fresco
Main Interior Building	The Negro’s Contribution in the Social and Cultural Development of America		Millard Sheets	1943	The Arts, Religion, Education, Science

Department of Justice

Location	Mural title	Image	Artist	Date	Notes	NRHP listed
Department of Justice	Contemporary Justice and Man		John Ballator	1937	tempera
Department of Justice	Society Freed Through Justice		George Biddle	1936	Fresco
Department of Justice	Contemporary Justice and Woman		Emil Bisttram	1939	oil on canvas
Department of Justice	Activities of the Department of Justice		Louis Bouche	1937	oil on canvas
Department of Justice	Movement of the Population Westward, Law Versus Mob Rule		John Steuart Curry	1937	oil on canvas
Department of Justice	The Triumph of Justice, The Defeat of Justice		Leon Kroll	1937	oil on canvas
Department of Justice	Justice Department Bureaus and Divisions		Henry Varnum Poor	1936	fresco
Department of Justice	Great Events and Figures of the Law		Boardman Robinson	1936	tempera
Department of Justice	Contemporary Justice—the Child		Symeon Shimin	1940	tempera
Department of Justice	Man’s Struggle for Justice		Maurice Sterne	1941	oil on board; 20 panels

Department of Labor Building

Location	Mural title	Image	Artist	Date	Notes	NRHP listed
Department of Labor	Construction, Power, and Transportation		Charles Trumbo Henry	1938	oil on canvas

National Zoo

Location	Mural title	Image	Artist	Date	Notes	NRHP listed
National Zoo	Noah’s Ark, Habitat Backgrounds in Bird and Pachyderm Houses		Domenico Mortellito	1937	mural

Procurement Division Building

Location	Mural title	Image	Artist	Date	Notes	NRHP listed
Procurement Division Building	Construction of Treasury buildings and Procurement Division activities		Harold Weston	1936–38	TRAP, 22 panels, oil on canvas

Idaho

Kansas

Maryland

Mississippi

Nevada

New Jersey

Location	Mural title	Image	Artist	Date	Notes	NRHP listed
Newark City Hall	History of Newark		Michael Lenson
Weequahic High School	History of the Enlightenment of Man		Michael Lenson
Roosevelt Community Center	Social and political liberty and justice		Ben Shahn
Atlantic City Stanley Holmes Village	Education of the Colored Man		Aaron Douglas
Camden Westfield Acres	Industrial Scenes		Grace Greenwood, Marion Greenwood,			buildings demolished;
Newark Museum	Mechanics of Flying, Aerial Map		Arshile Gorky	1937	2 of original 10 survive; originally at Newark Airport Admin Bldg.

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