Above: "The Steel Age," an oil painting by Edna Reindel (1894-1990), created while she was in the New Deal's Public Works of Art Project, 1933-1934. Image courtesy of the General Services Administration and Kristen Fusselle.
Above: The description for this photograph, ca. 1935-1938, reads, "Edna Reindel sits with her cat, Dozy, in front of a mural commissioned for the Fairfield housing project in Stamford, Connecticut by the [New Deal's] Treasury Relief Art Project. Dozy was a model for the mural." Reindel had a prolific and varied art career that included: teaching; book illustrations; a series of paintings published in Life magazine (depicting women in the national defense industries); artwork on the post-war atomic threat; and portraits of movie stars ("Artist's work showed her nuclear fears," Detroit Free Press, April 9, 1990, p. 2B). Photo by Iris Woolcock, provided courtesy of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
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