New Deal/WPA Art In Bronx, New York


The following is from the Bronx Art Website and ""Soundview - A Mural of Strength, but for Its Invisibility" (pdf file) By Seth Kugel, New York Times:

Artist

Title

Date

Medium

Size

Location

Ilya Bolotowsky

Untitled

1941

mosaic

42" x 42"

Theodore Roosevelt High School,
500 East Fordham Road, 3rd Floor

Francis Costa

"The Old Bronx" and "The Bronx Today"

1939

2 oil on canvas panels

144" x 180"

P.S. 11,
Highbridge School,
1257 Ogden Avenue

Alfred Floegel

"The History of the World and Constellation"

1941

mural, oil on canvas

928 sq. ft.

DeWitt Clinton High School
Mosholu Parkway & Paul Avenue

Bertram Goodman

"Evolution of the Book"

ca. 1936

oil on canvas

72" x 264"

Theodore Roosevelt High School
500 East Fordham Road

Edna Hershman

"Industry and Farming"

1941

2 oil on canvas panels

151" x 100"

Olinville Junior High School
(formerly PS 113 or Richard R. Green School)
3710 Barnes Avenue
New York City

Henry Kreis

"The Letter"

1935, 1938

limestone relief

13' 4" x 8' 4" x 3'

Bronx Central Post Office
558 Grand Concourse

James Michael Newell

"Development of Western Civilization"

ca. 1938

9 fresco murals

48" x 96" to 168" x 264"

Evander Childs High School
800 East Gun Hill Road

Charles Yardley Turner

"Opening the Erie Canal"

n/a

2 murals, oil on canvas

150" x 189"

DeWitt Clinton High School
Mosholu Parkway & Paul Avenue

Domenico Mortellito

unknown

ca. 1934

unknown

n/a

Soundview Library,
James Monroe Campus
Boynton Avenue


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