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- Title
An Incomplete History of Muralism at Rikers Island.
- Authors
Field, Parker
- Abstract
Along with Nelson Rockefeller's destruction of Diego Rivera's mural because of a portrait of Lenin within the composition, Shahn's Rikers rejection became one of the defining political events of the 1930s mural renaissance. With the space intended for Shahn's mural still empty, artist Harold Lehman began envisioning plans for a replacement mural for Rikers Island in 1936. Lehman's mural was one among many WPA-commissioned murals that utilized a regionalist, figurative style and highlighted the values of the nuclear family, labor, and modern innovation. At the bequest of Corrections officials, Jones painted a pastoral landscape mural for the James A. Thomas Center jail at Rikers and a mural for the visiting room that placed "the viewer at the top of a grand staircase descending toward a bubbling fountain and manicured hedges and lawns.
- Subjects
RIKERS Island (N.Y.); CHAPELS; WORLD War II; MURAL art; NEW York City mayors
- Publication
Brooklyn Rail, 2020, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2157-2151
- Publication type
Article