New Deal Ice Art (3/5): "Icy Street"

Above: "Icy Street," an artwork by Don Freeman (1908-1978), created while he was in the New Deal's Public Works of Art Project, 1934. Freeman also created some art for the WPA's federal theatre program and recalled those times during an oral history interview with the Smithsonian: "A lot of interesting [things] happened there... What was it called, 'Living Newspaper,' oh, marvelous things in those days, you just knew it was a renaissance of the theatre." Image courtesy of the General Services Administration and the Museum of the City of New York.