words quoted from https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/department-justice-boardman-robinson-murals-washington-dc/ 27.5.21 Great Codifiers of the Law: Menes - Moses - Hammurabi / Coke. - Magna Chart -. Blackstone - Marshall. Boardman Robinson. Murals. Oil on canvas. Department of Justice Building, Washington DC. 1937. Carol M. Highsmith Photography https://www.gsa.gov/fine-arts#/artist/114 31.5.21

In #NOVEMBER 1937
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Completed for #theNewDeal’s #TreasurySection of Painting & Sculpture at the #DepartmentOfJustice building in Washington DC, in 1936-1937, artist #BoardmanRobinson (1876–1952) ‘painted an enormous set of 18 tempera murals “Great Events and Figures of Law” ➡️

#AUTUMN & the #PublicWorksOfArtProject
‘Autumn Fields’
Edward Bruce (1879-1943), who himself headed #theNewDeal’s #PWAP, The #TreasurySection of Painting & Sculpture & the Treasury Relief Art project #TRAP. Oil on canvas #SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum.
#AmericanArt #EdwardBruce

‘from left to right (by figure) can be seen the industries of water heaters [Holyoke Heater Company], paper, a basket of rags used for cotton paper, tapestries and silk, thread [Merrick/American Thread Co], and machinery [Holyoke Machine Co.]. The clock tower in the center-top of the portrait is that of Holyoke City Hall, with the Mount Tom summit house clearly visible in the background. In the foreground are several buildings not necessarily next to one another in the way portrayed, these include the Prew Building to the immediately lower left of City Hall, the Holyoke Opera House at the center immediate-right, and the two towers of the Holy Trinity Greek Church. To the far right of the painting behind the factory buildings can be seen South Hadley Falls and Mount Holyoke. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Industries_of_Holyoke,_post_office_mural_study_commissioned_by_US_Treasury_Section_of_Painting_and_Sculpture.jpg

#OTD Oct. 16, 1934:
#TreasurySection of Fine Arts created (4)
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‘Industries of Holyoke’ Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896–1969). Mural study. Post Office, Holyoke, Massachusetts. Treasury Section of Fine Arts. 1935.
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Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer. https://www.loc.gov/collections/carol-m-highsmith/?fa=location:Pennsylvania

#OTD Oct. 16, 1934:
#TreasurySection of Fine Arts created (3)
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Courtroom, U.S. Courthouse and Post Office, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with fresco ‘Steel Industry’ by Howard Norton Cook (1901–1980)
Treasury Section of Fine Arts. 1936.

Carol M. Highsmith Photography https://www.gsa.gov/fine-arts#/artwork/18418 1.6.21 ‘Commissioned to carve a pair of marble relief panels, Boris Gilbertson chose to represent two of the largest and most majestic animals of the American west: the moose and bison. American Bison depicts part of a herd of grazing bison. The bulls and cows in the background form a protective barrier for two calves in the foreground. Gilbertson observed bison in captivity, both in zoos and in the national parks, while creating this composition. ...’

#OTD Oct. 16, 1934:
#TreasurySection of Fine Arts created (2)
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‘American Bison’ Boris Gilbertson (1907–1982). Marble relief. 66 x 156 in., 7500 lb. (167.6 x 396.2 cm, 3402 kg). Department of the of Interior Building, Washington DC. Treasury Section of Fine Arts. 1939.
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FDR’s schoolmate and friend, artist George Biddle (1885-1973) in 1936, at work on his mural Society Freed Through Justice, in the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection. 1936. Archives of American Art. Original caption: Biddle at work on a panel of the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Section of Painting and Sculpture - sponsored mural entitled, "Society Freed through Justice", located in the fifth-floor lobby of the Attorney-General's office in the Justice Department Building, Washington, D.C. ... on accompanying label ...: George Biddle (1885- ). Biddle received his law degree but immediately turned to art. His murals decorate government buildings in the United States, Brazil, and Mexico. He was active in helping to set up the Federal Art Project in the Thirties. Being an artist of great versatility, he has worked in stone, clay, paint, wood, and block printing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Biddle

#OTD in 1934
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#FDR's Treasury Secretary, #HenryMorgenthau, Jr., creates the #TreasurySection of Painting and Sculpture (later 'of Fine Arts') “to secure for the Government the best art which this country is capable of producing, with merit as the only test.”
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Panel: ‘Textile Mill’
#NewDeal #Bronx #PostOffice #USPS #TreasurySection #textiles #SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum

#TreasuryReliefArtProject (#TRAP), or, purely on the basis of merit, by the #TreasurySection of Painting & Sculpture (later ‘of Fine Arts’). These celebrated either the activities & history of the #USPS, as here, or something of local life or lore