dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
künstler: Edward Millman
titel: The Blessings of Water
jahr: 1937
+: WPA FAP funded fresco, 10' x 27'. Painted over, then restored in 1995 by the Department of General Services
«The defacement of Millman's murals was the result of an orchestrated campaign against WPA art by the anti-New Deal Chicago Tribune in 1940, a campaign that particularly targeted him, Britton and Siporin. While the accusation that their work was 'un-American in theme and design' and displayed 'communistic influence' is the usual stuff of reactionary rhetoric, it does confirm that the tenebrous effects and Mexican style that so worried Rowan at Decatur had a leftish political resonance.» (from: Hemingway, 2002)