Celebrating Heroes: American Mural Studies of the 1930s and 1940s from the Steven and Susan Hirsch C

September 2 - December 18, 2016 - This exhibition​ describes how the 1930s and 1940s were a golden age for murals in America where the everyday worker rose to the status of a primary hero. The Great Depression forged a renewed belief in the centrality of the laborer, and the federal government sponsored numerous work programs, including those for visual artists. Wall paintings about larger-than-life miners, farmers, and others covered walls in public buildings across the country are Displayed in the exhibition.