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.
Alabama Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlisted History Museum of Mobile John Augustus Walker
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California Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlisted George Washington High School (San Francisco) Life of Washington Victor Arnautoff 1936 13 scenes Santa Monica Public Library Invention and Imagination Stanton Macdonald-Wright 1935 Coit TowerMetropolitan LifeVictor ArnautoffCanoga Park High SchoolAssembly Hall (2)“The WPA Projects: PUBLIC ART THROUGHOUT THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY." Los Angeles Times, Nov 13, 1994, pp. 1.Helen LundebergPetrachromeMother's House, Fleishhacker PlaygroundEnd walls of the loggiaHelen Bell Bruton, Margaret BrutonTile mosaicPWAPMother's House, Fleishhacker PlaygroundEvolution of Noah's ArkDorothy Puccinelli, Helen ForbesTemperaPWAPLos Angeles County Hall of RecordsLanding of Cabrillo — 1542Charles H. DavisTemperaFAPRecreations of Long BeachStanton Macdonald-Wright, Henry Allen Nord, Albert KingMosaicFAP
Colorado Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlistedColorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs“Classic American theater”Ward Lockwood1935–36slated for removal
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District of Columbia
New Deal art was installed in the Social Security building (now HHS), the Department of the Interior, the Department of Justice building, the Department of Labor building (now Customs and Immigration), the Apex building (now Federal Trade Commission), 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 (now National Capitol Region Office Building, General Services Administration), and the War Department (now Department of State).
Elsewhere than government building
Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlistedHoward UniversityEmancipation of the American NegroDaniel Boza1938
Social Security Building
Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlistedSocial Security BuildingSports Related to Food Dorothy Farr, Fred Farr1941Stored in National Museum of American Art Social Security BuildingWealth of the Nation, Security of the People Seymour Fogel1942Social Security BuildingActivities of Four Parts of the Country Gertrude Goodrich1943Stored in National Museum of American Art Social Security BuildingReconstruction and Well-Being of the Family Philip Guston1942Stage curtain in auditoriumnon-mural, non-sculptureSocial Security BuildingMountains in Snow Jenne Magafan, Ethel Magafan1949Social Security BuildingWork, the Family, and Social Security, Child Labor, Unemployment, and Old AgeBen Shahn1942fresco
Main Interior Building
Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlistedMain Interior BuildingDance FestivalJames Auchiah1939Main Interior BuildingConservation of the National ParksGifford Beal1941Main Interior BuildingConservation—Western LandsLouis Bouche1938”in storage” circa 1984Main Interior BuildingDesert, Irrigation, Gathering Dates, ApplesNicolai Cikovsky1938Main Interior BuildingDeer, Peyote Bird and Symbols, Stealing Horses, Flute Player, Courting, Buffalo HuntWoodrow Crumbo1940Native American artist Main Interior BuildingRush for the Oklahoma Land—1889 and The HomesteadingJohn Steuart Curry1939Main Interior BuildingBureau of Indian AffairsMaynard Dixon1939Main Interior BuildingPlacer Mining, Fighting Forest Fire, and Winter Round-UpErnest Fiene1938Main Interior BuildingConstruction of the DamWilliam Gropper1939Main Interior Building“Indian themes”Velino Herrera1939Nine panelsMain Interior BuildingSinging Love Songs and Apache Round DanceAllan C. Houser1940Main Interior BuildingIndian MuralsAllan C. Houser and Gerald Nailordate unknownMain Interior BuildingNational ParksDavid McCosh1940Main Interior BuildingIndian ThemeStevan Mopope1939Main Interior BuildingHunting Ground and Initiation CeremonyGerald Nailor1940Main Interior BuildingAlaska and Insular PossessionsJames Michael Newell1939Main Interior BuildingConservation of WildlifeHenry Varnum Poor1939FrescoMain Interior BuildingThe Negro’s Contribution in the Social and Cultural Development of AmericaMillard Sheets1943 The Arts, Religion, Education, Science
Department of Justice
Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlistedDepartment of Justice Contemporary Justice and ManJohn Ballator1937temperaDepartment of Justice Society Freed Through JusticeGeorge Biddle1936FrescoDepartment of Justice Contemporary Justice and WomanEmil Bisttram1939oil on canvasDepartment of Justice Activities of the Department of JusticeLouis Bouche1937oil on canvasDepartment of Justice Movement of the Population Westward, Law Versus Mob RuleJohn Steuart Curry1937oil on canvasDepartment of Justice The Triumph of Justice, The Defeat of JusticeLeon Kroll1937oil on canvasDepartment of Justice Justice Department Bureaus and DivisionsHenry Varnum Poor1936frescoDepartment of Justice Great Events and Figures of the LawBoardman Robinson1936temperaDepartment of Justice Contemporary Justice—the ChildSymeon Shimin1940temperaDepartment of Justice Man’s Struggle for JusticeMaurice Sterne1941oil on board; 20 panels
Department of Labor Building
Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlistedDepartment of LaborConstruction, Power, and TransportationCharles Trumbo Henry1938oil on canvas
National Zoo
Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlistedNational ZooNoah’s Ark, Habitat Backgrounds in Bird and Pachyderm HousesDomenico Mortellito1937mural
Washington, D.C. Recorder of Deeds Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlistedD.C. Recorder of Deeds Crispus AttucksHerschel Levit1943D.C. Recorder of Deeds The Death of Colonel Shaw at Fort WagnerCarlos Lopez1943D.C. Recorder of Deeds The Battle of New OrleansEthel Magafan1943D.C. Recorder of Deeds Matthew Henson Planting the American Flag at the North PoleAustin Mecklem1943D.C. Recorder of Deeds Cyrus Tiffany at the Battle of Lake ErieMartyl Schweig1943D.C. Recorder of Deeds Frederick Douglass Appeals to President LincolnWilliam Edouard Scott1943D.C. Recorder of Deeds Benjamin BannekerMaxine Seelbinder1943
Procurement Division Building
Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlistedProcurement Division Building Construction of Treasury buildings and Procurement Division activitiesHarold Weston1936–38TRAP, 22 panels, oil on canvas
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Illinois Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlisted Legler Library, ChicagoFather Marquette's Winter in Chicago Richard Fayerweather Babcock 1934 Gray, Mary Lackritz, A Guide to Chicago’s Murals, foreword by Franz Schulze, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002 pp.108-109
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Michigan Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlisted East Lansing, Michigan Auditorium, MSU Proclamation of Emancipation Charles Pollock 1943 New Deal, Government Architecture, Murals & Sculpture of the 1930s & 1940s: A Walking Tour of East Lansing & Lansing, photographs from the Balthazar Korab Collection, 1988 We Assure Freedom to the Free 1944 The Modern Man I Sing Lansing, Michigan John F Dye Water Conditioning PlantBeneficial Force of Water Frank Cassara1940Water as Destructive Element Water as Hydro-Electric Power Charles Pollock
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New Hampshire Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlisted Federal Building (Laconia, New Hampshire)Wildlife in White Mountains Musa McKim 1941 Former U.S. Forestry Building
New Jersey
Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlistedNewark City HallHistory of NewarkMichael LensonWeequahic High SchoolHistory of the Enlightenment of ManMichael LensonRoosevelt Community CenterSocial and political liberty and justiceBen ShahnAtlantic City Stanley Holmes VillageEducation of the Colored ManAaron DouglasCamden Westfield AcresIndustrial ScenesGrace Greenwood, Marion Greenwood, buildings demolished; National Archives images of murals (?)Newark MuseumMechanics of Flying, Aerial MapArshile Gorky19372 of original 10 survive; originally at Newark Airport Admin Bldg.
New Mexico Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlisted Rogers HallNew Mexico Highlands UniversityLas Vegas Dissemination of Education on New Mexico Lloyd Moylan 1937 NRHPFlynn, Kathryn A., Treasures on New Mexico Trails: Discover New Deal Art and Architecture, Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1995 p. 61Alamagordo Federal BuildingSun and Rain, Sorghum, YuccaPeter Hurd1940frescoSanta Fe Santiago E. Campos United States CourthouseOld Santa Fe Trail, Taos Mountains, Monument Rock, Acoma, Old Cuba Road, CabezonWilliam Penhallow HendersonSix panels, TRAP, begun under PWAP1974
New York Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlisted Marine Air Terminal, LaGuardia AirportFlight James Brooks 1942 Largest WPA mural ever painted
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Ohio Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlistedLakeview Terrace Housing Project, ClevelandLegends and Fairy TalesEarl J. Neff1938Mural frieze Lakeview Terrace Housing Project, ClevelandChildren PlayingCharles Campbell (artist)19382 murals United States Industrial Reformatory, ChillicotheVocational Training in the ReformatoryE. Paul Wilhelm19382 murals
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South Carolina Location Mural title Image Artist Date NotesNRHPlisted Aiken Justice as Protector and Avenger Stefan Hirsch 1938 oil on canvasCharles E. Simons Jr. Federal Court HouseControversy once caused the mural to be covered and only visible to the public upon request
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Tennessee