Abstract
AbstractThe Roosevelt Administration's New Deal social programs, designed to provide employment for out-of-work Americans during the Great Depression, included a number of projects which created jobs for artists. New Mexico, a state with significant and recognized art colonies, greatly contributed to the New Deal programs by enhancing public buildings with murals, paintings, sculpture, weaving, furniture, and pottery. A further goal of the art programs was to create a national style representing the American cultural landscape in all its diversity. At the University of New Mexico, three sets of New Deal-era murals, created by artists Willard Nash, Raymond Jonson, and Kenneth Adams, document 1930s student life and local culture.
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