Critics wrote the work off as kitsch for the masses. But a set of murals celebrating Social Security—now threatened with ...

The Works Progress administration and other New Deal programs saw artists as "workers with a brush." ...

WPA mural from the Cohen Building (formerly housing the Social Security Board Building) in Washington, D.C., 1942. Seymour Fogel's murals were painted to express the meaning of Social Security. The ...

WORCESTER – It was nearly a century ago when President Franklin D. Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, which aimed to bring immediate economic relief as the country slowly emerged from the Great ...