Wednesday, September 25, 2019

New Deal Art: "Stone Crusher" by Edmund Lewandowski

Above: "Stone Crusher," a painting by Edmund Lewandowski (1914-1998), created while he was in the WPA, ca. 1935-1943. Lewandowski was a prolific artist, creating "more than 1,000 paintings and dozens of murals for corporations and federal buildings" and was "known for his paintings of the nation's industrial history" ("Muralist Edmund Lewandowski Dies," The Times-Tribune (Scranton, Pennsylvania), September 13, 1998). Image courtesy of the General Services Administration and the Ackland Art Museum.

Above: WPA workers with a portable stone crusher in Garrett County, Maryland, 1938. Photo courtesy of the University of Maryland College Park Archives.

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