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New Deal Murals: A Legacy for Today's Public Art and Art Education
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A recent discovery of 1930s New Deal murals in a school's attic has been the impetus for identifying how the legacy of these murals impacts on today's public art and contemporary art education. In 1995, a Chicago eighth grader, Hana Field, studying New Deal art, was the catalyst for the discovery of the treasure of New Deal art at Highland Park High School, in Highland Park, Illinois. As Hana researched Illinois Federal art projects, she read in Mavigliano & Lawson (1990) about Highland Park's nine panels depicting industrial scenes painted by Edgar Britton, one of Chicago's outstanding muralists of the 1930s. The murals were found in the attic where they had been stored since 1955 …
