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English: Photograph of artist Ilya Bolotowsky and assistant John Joslyn working on a mural for the Hall of Medical Sciences at the 1939 New York World's Fair

Mural study for the 1939 New York World's Fair at The Living New Deal:

Ilya Bolotowsky’s oil painting study for the Hall of Sciences mural at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York is today housed in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. It is all that remains of Bolotowsky’s mural commissioned by the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Arts Projects, as all murals made for the World’s Fair were destroyed at the Fair’s closure (Mahoney, p. 261). Bolotowsky is a generally overlooked pioneer of American abstract art and this work is a testament to the brilliance of his art, which he was given ample opportunity to practice through the New Deal. Thus, this study is a vital work not only as evidence of the lost mural, but also as a significant addition to the understanding of the federally funded artwork made under the New Deal’s projects.
Study for the Hall of Medical Sciences Mural at the 1939 World's Fair in New York, 1938/39 at the Art Institute of Chicago
Date 1 January 1938
Source Archive of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Author Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project; photographer unknown
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This image is a work of a Works Progress Administration employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. §§ 101 and 105).

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