# List of New Deal murals

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 | Notes | NRHP listed |
| History Museum of Mobile | | | John Augustus Walker | | | |

## Alaska

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## Arizona

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## Arkansas

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## California

| Location | Mural title | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| 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 Tower | Metropolitan Life | Victor Arnautoff | | |
| Canoga Park High School | Assembly Hall (2) | Helen Lundeberg | | Petrachrome | |
| Mother's House, Fleishhacker Playground | End walls of the loggia | Helen Bell Bruton, Margaret Bruton | | Tile mosaic | PWAP |
| Mother's House, Fleishhacker Playground | Evolution of Noah's Ark | Dorothy Puccinelli, Helen Forbes | | Tempera | PWAP |
| Los Angeles County Hall of Records | Landing of Cabrillo — 1542 | Charles H. Davis | | Tempera | FAP |
| | Recreations of Long Beach | Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Henry Allen Nord, Albert King | | Mosaic | FAP |

## Colorado

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs | “Classic American theater” | | Ward Lockwood | 1935–36 | slated for removal |

## Connecticut

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## Delaware

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## 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 | Notes | NRHP listed |
| Howard University | Emancipation of the American Negro | | Daniel Boza | 1938 | | |

### Social Security Building

| Location | Mural title | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| Social Security Building | Sports Related to Food | Dorothy Farr, Fred Farr | 1941 | Stored in National Museum of American Art | |
| Social Security Building | Wealth of the Nation, Security of the People | Seymour Fogel | 1942 | | |
| Social Security Building | Activities of Four Parts of the Country | Gertrude Goodrich | 1943 | Stored in National Museum of American Art | |
| Social Security Building | Reconstruction and Well-Being of the Family | Philip Guston | 1942 | Stage curtain in auditorium | non-mural, non-sculpture |
| Social Security Building | Mountains in Snow | Jenne Magafan, Ethel Magafan | 1949 | | |
| Social Security Building | Work, the Family, and Social Security, Child Labor, Unemployment, and Old Age | Ben Shahn | 1942 | fresco | |

### Main Interior Building

| Location | Mural title | Artist | Date | Notes |
| Main Interior Building | Dance Festival | James Auchiah | 1939 | |
| Main Interior Building | Conservation of the National Parks | Gifford Beal | 1941 | |
| Main Interior Building | Conservation—Western Lands | Louis Bouche | 1938 | ”in storage” circa 1984 |
| Main Interior Building | Desert, Irrigation, Gathering Dates, Apples | Nicolai Cikovsky | 1938 | |
| Main Interior Building | Deer, Peyote Bird and Symbols, Stealing Horses, Flute Player, Courting, Buffalo Hunt | Woodrow Crumbo | 1940 | Native American artist |
| Main Interior Building | Rush for the Oklahoma Land—1889 and The Homesteading | John Steuart Curry | 1939 | |
| Main Interior Building | Bureau of Indian Affairs | Maynard Dixon | 1939 | |
| Main Interior Building | Placer Mining, Fighting Forest Fire, and Winter Round-Up | Ernest Fiene | 1938 | |
| Main Interior Building | Construction of the Dam | William Gropper | 1939 | |
| Main Interior Building | “Indian themes” | Velino Herrera | 1939 | Nine panels |
| Main Interior Building | Singing Love Songs and Apache Round Dance | Allan C. Houser | 1940 | |
| Main Interior Building | Indian Murals | Allan C. Houser and Gerald Nailor | date unknown | |
| Main Interior Building | National Parks | David McCosh | 1940 | |
| Main Interior Building | Indian Theme | Stevan Mopope | 1939 | |
| Main Interior Building | Hunting Ground and Initiation Ceremony | Gerald Nailor | 1940 | |
| Main Interior Building | Alaska and Insular Possessions | James Michael Newell | 1939 | |
| Main Interior Building | Conservation of Wildlife | Henry Varnum Poor | 1939 | Fresco |
| Main Interior Building | The Negro’s Contribution in the Social and Cultural Development of America | Millard Sheets | 1943 | The Arts, Religion, Education, Science |

### Department of Justice

| Location | Mural title | Artist | Date | Notes |
| Department of Justice | Contemporary Justice and Man | John Ballator | 1937 | tempera |
| Department of Justice | Society Freed Through Justice | George Biddle | 1936 | Fresco |
| Department of Justice | Contemporary Justice and Woman | Emil Bisttram | 1939 | oil on canvas |
| Department of Justice | Activities of the Department of Justice | Louis Bouche | 1937 | oil on canvas |
| Department of Justice | Movement of the Population Westward, Law Versus Mob Rule | John Steuart Curry | 1937 | oil on canvas |
| Department of Justice | The Triumph of Justice, The Defeat of Justice | Leon Kroll | 1937 | oil on canvas |
| Department of Justice | Justice Department Bureaus and Divisions | Henry Varnum Poor | 1936 | fresco |
| Department of Justice | Great Events and Figures of the Law | Boardman Robinson | 1936 | tempera |
| Department of Justice | Contemporary Justice—the Child | Symeon Shimin | 1940 | tempera |
| Department of Justice | Man’s Struggle for Justice | Maurice Sterne | 1941 | oil on board; 20 panels |

### Department of Labor Building

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| Department of Labor | Construction, Power, and Transportation | | Charles Trumbo Henry | 1938 | oil on canvas | |

### National Zoo

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| National Zoo | Noah’s Ark, Habitat Backgrounds in Bird and Pachyderm Houses | | Domenico Mortellito | 1937 | mural | |

### Washington, D.C. Recorder of Deeds

| Location | Mural title | Artist | Date |
| D.C. Recorder of Deeds | Crispus Attucks | Herschel Levit | 1943 |
| D.C. Recorder of Deeds | The Death of Colonel Shaw at Fort Wagner | Carlos Lopez | 1943 |
| D.C. Recorder of Deeds | The Battle of New Orleans | Ethel Magafan | 1943 |
| D.C. Recorder of Deeds | Matthew Henson Planting the American Flag at the North Pole | Austin Mecklem | 1943 |
| D.C. Recorder of Deeds | Cyrus Tiffany at the Battle of Lake Erie | Martyl Schweig | 1943 |
| D.C. Recorder of Deeds | Frederick Douglass Appeals to President Lincoln | William Edouard Scott | 1943 |
| D.C. Recorder of Deeds | Benjamin Banneker | Maxine Seelbinder | 1943 |

### Procurement Division Building

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| Procurement Division Building | Construction of Treasury buildings and Procurement Division activities | | Harold Weston | 1936–38 | TRAP, 22 panels, oil on canvas | |

## Florida

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## Georgia

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## Hawaii

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## Idaho

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## Illinois

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| Legler Library, Chicago | Father Marquette's Winter in Chicago | | Richard Fayerweather Babcock | 1934 | | |

## Indiana

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## Iowa

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## Kansas

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## Kentucky

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## Louisiana

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## Maine

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## Maryland

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## Massachusetts

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## Michigan

| Location | Mural title | Artist | Date |
| East Lansing, Michigan Auditorium, MSU | Proclamation of Emancipation | Charles Pollock | 1943 |
| East Lansing, Michigan Auditorium, MSU | We Assure Freedom to the Free | Charles Pollock | 1944 |
| East Lansing, Michigan Auditorium, MSU | The Modern Man I Sing | Charles Pollock | 1944 |
| Lansing, Michigan John F Dye Water Conditioning Plant | Beneficial Force of Water | Frank Cassara | 1940 |
| Lansing, Michigan John F Dye Water Conditioning Plant | Water as Destructive Element | Frank Cassara | 1940 |
| Lansing, Michigan John F Dye Water Conditioning Plant | Water as Hydro-Electric Power | Charles Pollock | 1940 |

## Minnesota

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## Mississippi

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## Missouri

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## Montana

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## Nebraska

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## Nevada

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## New Hampshire

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| Federal Building (Laconia, New Hampshire) | Wildlife in White Mountains | | Musa McKim | 1941 | Former U.S. Forestry Building | |

## New Jersey

| Location | Mural title | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| Newark City Hall | History of Newark | Michael Lenson | | | |
| Weequahic High School | History of the Enlightenment of Man | Michael Lenson | | | |
| Roosevelt Community Center | Social and political liberty and justice | Ben Shahn | | | |
| Atlantic City Stanley Holmes Village | Education of the Colored Man | Aaron Douglas | | | |
| Camden Westfield Acres | Industrial Scenes | Grace Greenwood, Marion Greenwood, | | | buildings demolished; National Archives images of murals (?) |
| Newark Museum | Mechanics of Flying, Aerial Map | Arshile Gorky | 1937 | 2 of original 10 survive; originally at Newark Airport Admin Bldg. | |

## New Mexico

| Location | Mural title | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| Rogers Hall New Mexico Highlands University Las Vegas | Dissemination of Education on New Mexico | Lloyd Moylan | 1937 | | NRHP |
| Alamagordo Federal Building | Sun and Rain, Sorghum, Yucca | Peter Hurd | 1940 | fresco | |
| Santa Fe Santiago E. Campos United States Courthouse | Old Santa Fe Trail, Taos Mountains, Monument Rock, Acoma, Old Cuba Road, Cabezon | William Penhallow Henderson | | Six panels, TRAP, begun under PWAP | 1974 |

## New York

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## North Carolina

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## North Dakota

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## Ohio

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date |
| Lakeview Terrace Housing Project, Cleveland | Legends and Fairy Tales | Earl J. Neff | 1938 | Mural frieze |
| Lakeview Terrace Housing Project, Cleveland | Children Playing | Charles Campbell (artist) | 1938 | 2 murals |
| United States Industrial Reformatory, Chillicothe | Vocational Training in the Reformatory | E. Paul Wilhelm | 1938 | 2 murals |

## Oklahoma

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## Oregon

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## Pennsylvania

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## Puerto Rico

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## Rhode Island

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## South Carolina

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
| Aiken | Justice as Protector and Avenger | | Stefan Hirsch | 1938 | oil on canvas Charles E. Simons Jr. Federal Court House Controversy once caused the mural to be covered and only visible to the public upon request | |

## South Dakota

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## Tennessee

| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |

## Texas

| Location | Mural title | Artist | Date | Notes |
| Eldon B. Mahon United States Courthouse, Fort Worth | The Taking of Sam Bass | Frank Mechau | 1940 | oil on canvas |
| Eldon B. Mahon United States Courthouse, Fort Worth | Texas Rangers in Camp | Frank Mechau | 1940 | oil on canvas |
| Eldon B. Mahon United States Courthouse, Fort Worth | Flags Over Texas | Frank Mechau | 1940 | oil on canvas |

## Utah

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## Vermont

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## Virgin Islands

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## Virginia

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## Washington

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## Wisconsin

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## Wyoming

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