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| Promoting Cultural Pluralism, Creating frescoes, mosaics, and photo-collages, New Deal muralists installed their work in over 1300 public buildings. This image is a detail of a 1930s fresco made by Lucienne Bloch in New York City's George Washington High School. Her celebration of America's cultural diversity captures an important theme of the New Deal artists. Source: Frontiers of American Art, Works Progress Administration: Federal Art Project, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1939. |