The Liberty County Historical Commission will meet Monday, April 13, 2026, at 6 p.m. in the Hartel Building, 318 San Jacinto ...
Critics wrote the work off as kitsch for the masses. But a set of murals celebrating Social Security—now threatened with ...
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How the New Deal treated art as essential to democracy
The Works Progress administration and other New Deal programs saw artists as "workers with a brush." ...
WPA mural from the Cohen Building (formerly housing the Social Security Board Building) in Washington, D.C., 1942. Seymour Fogel's murals were painted to express the meaning of Social Security. The ...
West wall of Ben Shahn's "Meaning of Social Security" mural in the Cohen Building in Washington, DC (photo by Carol Highsmith via Library of Congress) Hundreds of artists and cultural workers have ...
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