List_of_New_Deal_sculpture

List of New Deal sculpture

US government funded artwork, 1933–1942

List of New Deal sculpture is a list of sculpture found in the United States and its territories, including free standing, relief and architectural sculpture that was funded by the federal government during the New Deal era.

Aquarius (1938) by Samuel Cashwan for the John F. Dye Water Conditioning Plant in Lansing, Mich.

These include works produced under the Public Works of Art Project, (1933–1934), Treasury Relief Art Project, (1935–1938), Federal Art Projects (1935–1943), the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture (1934–1943) and other federally sponsored projects.

Unless otherwise noted, sources are from Park and Markowitz^[1] or American Art Annual, 1941.^[2] "USPO" refers to a United States Post Office building, the term "relief" refers to relief sculpture.

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Park, Marlene; Markowitz, Gerald E. (1984). Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. pp. 201–235. ISBN 0-87722-348-3. OCLC 10877506.

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Location	Title	Artist	Medium	Date	Notes
USPO Alexander City	Tobacco, Wheat and Cotton	Frenc Epping	terra cotta	1941	relief
USPO Opp	Opp	Hans Mangelsdorf	wood	1940	relief
USPO Scottsboro	Alabama Agriculture	Constance Ortmayer	plaster	1940	three-panel relief^[3]

Location	Title	Image	Artist	Medium	Date	Notes

Location	Title	Image	Artist	Medium	Date	Notes
in front of Cochise County Court House Bisbee^[4]	The Arizona Miner		Phillips Sanderson	painted cast stone	1935	9 foot tall statue
USPO Flagstaff	Arizona logging		Robert Kittredge	plaster	1940	relief, since moved, missing
Arizona State Fairgrounds Grandstand Phoenix^[5]	history and Arizona activities		David Carrick Swing and Florence Blakeslee	copper sprayed cast concrete	1936	23 panels
USPO & Forestry Building Springerville	Apache Chiefs Geronimo and Vittorio		Robert Kittredge	plaster	1939	relief
Arizona State University campus Tempe^[6]	fountain		Emry Kopta	cast concrete	1934	only the bottom of three tiers was completed
Hayden Library, ASU Tempe^[7]	The Flute Player		Emry Kopta	bronze	1934	originally intended as top of fountain

Location	Title	Image	Artist	Medium	Date	Notes
Berryville Post Office	Man and Woman, Arkansas		Daniel Gillette Olney		1940
Monticello Post Office	Tomato Culture		Berta Margoulies	terra cotta	1941	3 reliefs

Location	Title	Artist	Medium	Date	Notes
USPO Bell	Eagle	Stuart Holmes	wood	1937	"in private hands"^[9]
United States Post Office (Berkeley, California)	Pony Express-Early California	David Slivka	limestone	1937	relief
USPO Burlingame	The Letter	James L. Hansen	cast stone	1941
USPO Claremont	Eagle	Stuart Holmes		1936	missing
USPO Colton	Eagle	Sherry Peticolas & Gordon Newell		1936
USPO Covina	Covina Desert Orange Groves	Atanas Katchamakoff	Spanish cedar	1941	relief
USPO & Courthouse now City Hall Fresno	RFD 1 and RFD 2	Helen Bell Bruton	terra cotta	1940	reliefs^[10]
USPO & Courthouse now City Hall Fresno	American Eagles	William Calfee	cast concrete	1940
USPO & Courthouse now City Hall, Fresno	Justice	Archibald Garner	cast concrete	1940	relief
USPO Gardena	Rural Life	Rudolph Parducci	1941	carved mahogany	relief; see also exterior detail: prop plane, train, ship
USPO Hollister	Early California	Vladimir Menkoff Joseph Stone & Avis Zeigler, assts.	wood	1936
United States Post Office (Hollywood, Los Angeles)	Horsemen	Sherry Peticolas and Gordon Newell	wood	1937
USPO Inglewood	Centinela Springs	Archibald Garner	mahogany	1937	relief
Inglewood	Buffalo, Bear, Cougar, Bighorn Sheep	Sherry Peticolas & Gordon Newell	plaster	1937
King City	King City High School Auditorium	Jo Mora	Concrete	1939	NHRP
USPO Livermore	The Ranch Post Box	Robert Boardman Howard	oak	1941	relief
USPO & Courthouse, Los Angeles	Eagles	James Hansen		1941
USPO & CourtHouse Los Angeles	Eagles	Henry Lion	cast stone	1938	2 Eagles, on the facade
USPO & CourtHouse Los Angeles	Law	Archibald Garner	limestone	1941	"in storage" (1984)
USPO & CourtHouse Los Angeles	Young Lincoln	James L. Hansen	limestone	1941	"now Recorder of Deeds"^[11]
USPO Oceanside	Eagle	Stuart Holmes		1936	carved grill
Riverside^[12]	Juan Bautista De Anza	Sherry Peticolas	carved granite	1939	statue
Riverside^[12]	Departure from Tubac Second De Anza Expedition, 1775	Dorr Bothwell (design), Sherry Peticolas	sandstone	1939	bas relief
USPO Roseville	The Letter	Zygmund Sazevich	wood	1937	relief
USPO San Fernando	Transportation of the Mail	Sherry Peticolas and Gordon Newell	Wood	1936	Truck, horse, ship, train, stagecoach^[13]
USPO Salinas	Cowboy Cattleman Cowboy and Horse	Richard O'Hanlon	walnut	1937	reliefs
USPO San Diego	Transportation of the Mail	Archibald Garner		1937
San Francisco Mint	Minting Process and Eagle	Albert Stewart	bronze	1937	4 reliefs
USPO San Mateo	Indian Maidens	Zygmund Sazevich	wood	1935	relief^[14]
United States Post Office-Santa Barbara Main	Transportation of the Mail	William Atkinson	plaster	1937	6 sunken reliefs
USPO Santa Clara	Early Pioneers	Michael von Meyer	wood	1937
USPO Yuba City	The Wealth of Sutter County	Lulu H. Brighetta	wood	1942	relief
El Segundo Swim Stadium	Swimmers^[15]	Unknown		1941^[16]	relief
San Pedro, Los Angeles	Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo^[17]	Henry Lion	cast concrete	1936	statue
Glendale Community College	Fountain with mosaic^[13]	Archibald Garner
Santa Monica	Statue of Saint Monica	Eugene Morahan	Concrete	1934	Statue, PWAP
Lafayette Park, Los Angeles	Power of Water fountain with bas relief frieze	Henry Lion, Jason Herron, and Sherry Peticolas; engineer Paul Jeffers		1934	PWAP

Location	Ttle	Image	Artist	Medium	Date	Notes
USPO La Plata	Missouri Livestock		Emma Lou Davis	wood	1939	relief
USPO Maplewood	Family Group		Carl Mose	wood	1942	relief

Location	Title	Image	Artist	Medium	Date	Notes
USPO New Milford	The Post		Mildred Jerome	wood	1938	reliefs, building now (1984 school board offices
USPO Oakville	The Picnickers		Theodore Barbarossa	wood	1941	relief
USPO South Norwalk	Eagle		Gaetano Cecere	marble	1941	relief
USPO Stamford	Mother and Child Neighbors		Henry Kreis		1938
USPO Windsor	Stringing, Transplanting, and Harvesting		Nena de Brennecke	wood	1943

Location	Title	Image	Artist	Medium	Date	Notes
Department of Commerce Building^[18]			James Earle Fraser and Laura Gardin Fraser created 1/2" to 1' plaster sketches of all the pediments fabricated by various sculptors			Several of the sculptural elements on the building by Ricci & Zari and carved by Edward Ardolino were executed before the New Deal so don't fit into the parameters of this article. The later sculpture finished in 1934 does fall into the New Deal era
Department of Commerce Building	Foreign and Domestic commerce		Ulysses Ricci	limestone	1934	designed by James Earle Fraser
Department of Commerce Building	Fisheries		Joseph Kiselewski	limestone	1934	designed by James Earle Fraser carved by the Gino Ratti Company
Department of Commerce Building	Aeronautics		Haig Patigian	limestone	1934	designed by James Earle Fraser carved by Geno A. Ratti Company
Department of Commerce Building	Mining		Frederick G.R. Roth		1943	designed by James Earle Fraser carved by the Gino Ratti Company
Federal Trade Commission Building	Construction		Chaim Gross	limestone	1938
Federal Trade Commission Building	Shipping		Robert Laurent	limestone	1938
Federal Trade Commission Building	Aluminum grills		William McVey	Aluminum	1938
Federal Trade Commission Building	Agriculture		Concetta Scaravaglione	limestone	1938
Federal Trade Commission Building	Foreign Trade		Carl Schmitz	limestone	1938
Federal Trade Commission Building	American Eagles		Sidney Waugh	limestone	1938
Federal Trade Commission Building Constitution Avenue side	Man Controlling Trade		Michael Lantz	limestone	1942
Federal Trade Commission Building Pennsylvania Avenue side	Man Controlling Trade		Michael Lantz	limestone	1942
Government Printing Office Warehouse Building	Men Stacking Paper Stock Printing Press Activities		Elliott Means		1937
Government Printing Office Warehouse Building	Government Printing Office Seal		Armin Scheler		1937
former Home Owners' Loan Corporation Building	7 reliefs, "The Building Trades"		Albert Stewart	limestone	1936
Internal Revenue Service Building	four identical eagles with fasces		Ricci & Zari	limestone	1936
Langston Terrace Dwellings	Emancipation of the Colored Man aka The Progress of the Negro Race		Daniel Olney	terra cotta	1937
National Zoological Park	Pre-historic Animals		Charles R. Wright		1937
National Zoological Park	Anteater Entrance to the Mammal House		Erwin Springweiler		1937
National Zoological Park	Tumbling Bears		Heinz Warneke		1938
Post Office Department Building	Post Rider Continental 1775 to 1789		Alexander Stirling Calder	aluminum	1936
Post Office Department Building	Rural Free Delivery		Gaetano Cecere		1936
Post Office Department Building	Portraits of 8 former Postmaster Generals		Gleb Derujinsky		1937
Post Office Department Building	Alaska Snowshoe Carrier		Chaim Gross	aluminum	1936
Post Office Department Building	Pony Express 1850–1858		Arthur Lee		1937
Post Office Department Building	Air Mail		Oronzio Maldarelli		1936
Post Office Department Building	Samuel Osgood First Postmaster General		Paul Manship		1937
Post Office Department Building	Postman 1961-1775		Berta Margoulies		1936
Post Office Department building	Present Day Postman		Attilio Piccirilli		1937
Post Office Department Building	Railway Mail-1862		Concetta Scaravaglione		1936
Post Office Department Building	City Delivery Carrier		Carl Schmitz		1936
Post Office Department Building	Tropical Postman		Louis Slobodkin		1936
Post Office Department building	Express Man		Heinz Warneke		1936
Post Office Department Building	Stage driver, 1789–1836		Sidney Waugh		1936
Post Office Department Building	Benjamin Franklin the First Colonial Postmaster		William Zorach		1937
Social Security & RR Retirement Board Building	American Eagle		Richmond Barthé		1940
Social Security & RR Retirement Board Building	Family group Unemployment Compensation		Emma Lu Davis		1941
Social Security & RR Retirement Board Building	Railroad Employment Railroad Retirement		Robert Kittredge		1941

Location	Title	Image	Artist	Medium	Date	Notes
USPO Ashburn	Southern Farm Life		Maurice Glickman		1947	missing (2016)^[9]
Techwood Homes Housing Project Atlanta	Fawn		Ahron Ben-Shmuel		1936
USPO Cochran	The Little Farmer		Ilse Erythropel	glazed terra cotta	1940	relief
USPO Lyons	Wild Duck and Deer		Albino Manca	terra cotta	1942	relief
USPO Manchester	Game Bird Hunt		Erwin Springweiler	mahagony	1941	relief
USPO Winder	Weighing Cotton		Marion Sanford	plaster	1939	now located in Barrow County Museum
USPO Wrightsville	Transgression		Earl N. Thorp	cast stone	1940	relief

Location	Title	Image	Artist	Medium	Date	Notes
Bonners Ferry	Boundary County Courthouse Friezes^[19]		Fletcher Martin			Floating Logs; Harvest; Mining; NHRP

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