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:: Monday, June 07, 2004 ::
The hunt is on for lost New Deal murals, now recognized as cultural artifacts By Cain Burdeau, Canadian Press
Artists - like everyone else - went broke after the stock market crash of 1929. In the ensuing Depression, the government put them to work.
New Deal programs such as the Works Progress Administration, or WPA, paid artists solid wages - $38.28 a week for a professional artist and $13.70 for a labourer - to brighten a bleak world of factory layoffs and bloody strikes, train-hopping hoboes and dispiriting soup kitchens.
They painted murals in Washington, D.C. - at the Department of Interior and post office buildings - and got sent to far-flung places, from Wauwatosa, Wis., to Selma, Calif., to adorn government buildings and schools.
About 1,400 murals were painted in U.S. post offices and an effort is underway to track down about 200 - including the Eunice one - whose status is uncertain, said Dallan Wordekemper, a preservation officer with the U.S. General Services Administration.------------------------------------------- posted 6:34 AM :: reference link ::
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