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This mural was one of two painted in 1938 for a new building slated to be the Social Security Administration, in Washington, DC. The two make a case for the benefits of a social safety net and coordinated management of the US economy. "Wealth of…

A large and elegant boat dominates this scene, immediately drawing the viewer’s attention. Those few people visible in Jacks' print, scattered around the docks, appear almost ghost-like, as if incorporated into the backdrop. Their small number and…

At the center of this mural is Cinderella and her horse-drawn carriage, a fanciful castle in the background. Also appearing are well-known characters from other fairy tales: at left, Little Bo Peep, Miss Muffet, and Little Boy Blue; at right, Jack…

This structure was located on a 1500-acre cantaloupe farm in California's Imperial Valley near the US border with Mexico. Its photographer, Dorothea Lange, was one of the best-known photographers of the New Deal era, often recording poverty amidst…

The full title of this photograph is "Day laborers carrying sack of cotton from field to cotton house to be weighed, Marcella Plantation, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi." It was taken by a photographer hired by the Farm Security Administration during…

An inscription on this photograph reads: "1st Standpipe for gravity feed of the public water system, near present water tower." It appears that it was constructed in 1936 by the Public Works Administration (PWA) as part of the New Deal economic…

Because of its visible brush strokes, this painting is a highly impressionistic landscape of a rocky coastline meeting the sea. Here, the artist makes use of warm reds and browns to contrast the cool, refreshing quality of the ocean with the sturdy,…

We see a steamboat on a river, its importance shown via a stack located at the center of Burliuk's composition and by how much space the boat itself occupies--seemingly the width of the river. The watercolor is drawn in a neo-primitive style,…

A cool colored, slightly impressionistic seascape, "Open Sea" displays the tumult and beauty of waves on the ocean juxtaposed with the serenity of passing clouds overhead. The artist uses the natural contrast between the blue and white colors to…

In this still life we see upon a sideboard a pot planted with large lillies, as well as smaller flowers growing around them. There is a book open, which looks to be a highly stylised Bible, propped up in its own rectangular vessel. Given the…