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dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)

künstler: Edward Millman

titel: Women's Contribution to America's Progress: Samaritans in the Field. Suffrage Movement. Child Labor and the Schools. Women's Fight for Peace (with Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams, Clara Barton, Frances Perkins represented)

jahr: 1940

adresse: Lucy Flower Vocational High School (first floor foyer; today: Al Raby High School for Community and Environment), 3545 West Fulton Boulevard, Chicago IL, USA

+: Fresco. 4 walls, six panels: two 7'9" x 9', two 4'5" x 9', and two 9'2" x 9'. Commissioned by the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project WPA FAP. Restored by the Field and Bay Foundations and the Board of Education in 1996

«The principal of the school was so pleased with the new murals that she asked the Board of Education to provide extra lighting in the foyer. Instead, administrators deemed the murals “depressing,” “misery-laden” and inappropriate for a public school.” As a result, the Board of Education had them whitewashed over [in the end of 1941]» (from: Chicago Historic Schools, see below)