New Deal Art: On the rails

Above: "Pacific Cable Car - San Francisco," a lithograph by Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh (1890-1944), created while she was in the WPA's art program, ca. 1935-1943. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Above: "The Railroads Came To Town," a watercolor by Saul Berman (1899-1975), created while he was in the WPA's art program, ca. 1935-1943. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Above: "Bridges in Winter," an oil painting by Nicola Victor Ziroli (1908-1970), created while he was in the New Deal's Public Works of Art Project, 1934. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Above: "Subway," an oil painting by Lily Furedi (1896-1969), created while she was in the New Deal's Public Works of Art Project, 1934. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Above: A model of "The Montezuma," the first mountain locomotive of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. The model was created by WPA workers for the Colorado State Museum, ca. 1935-1943. Photo courtesy of the National Archives.

Above: "6th Avenue Subway," an aquatint on paper by Harry Francis Mack (1907-?), created while he was in the WPA's Federal Art Project, ca. 1935-1939. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Above: "Uptown," a color lithograph by Leonard Pytlak (1910-1998), created while he was in the WPA's art program, ca. 1939. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Above: "Arrival of First Train in Herrington," a mural study for the Herrington Post Office [Kansas], created by Harry Louis Freund (1905-1999), created while he was working for the New Deal's Section of Fine Arts (Federal Works Agency, Public Buildings Administration), ca. 1939-1943. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Above: "Engine House and Bunkers," an oil painting by Austin Mecklem (1894-1951), created while he was in the New Deal's Public Works of Art Project, 1934. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Above: "Along the River," an oil painting by Lamar Dodd (1909-1996), created while he was in the New Deal's Public Works of Art Project, 1934. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Above: "Back o' the Yards #3," a gouache painting by Mitchell Siporin (1910-1976), created while he was in the WPA's Federal Art Project, 1937. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Above: "Engines and Landscape," a watercolor by Nelson Rosenberg (1908-1988), created while he was in the WPA's Federal Art Project, 1936. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Above: "Modern Music," a linoleum cut on paper by Albert Potter (1903-1937), created while he was in one of the New Deal art programs, ca. 1933-1936. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Above: "Nocturne," a tempera on paperboard by Jack Lubin (1907-1986), created while he was in the WPA's Federal Art Project, 1938. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

 Above: Part of the mural, "The History of Transportation," at the Towson Post Office [Maryland], created by Nicolai Cikovsky, while he was on commission with the New Deal's Treasury Section of Fine Arts, 1939. Photo by Brent McKee, used here for educational, non-commercial purposes.

Above: "Railroading," a mural study by Arthur Herschel Lidov (1917-1990), created while he was in one of the New Deal art programs; probably the Public Building Administration's Section of Fine Arts, ca. 1941. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.