The Public Works of Art Project was a New Deal work-relief program that employed professional artists to create sculptures, paintings, crafts and design for public buildings and parks during the Great
Negro Mother and Child (1934) by Maurice Glickman, commissioned by PWAP and installed at the Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building in 1940
Photograph of the regional directors and Washington, D.C., administrative staff of the Public Works of Art Project (1934)
Astronomer's Monument at Griffith Observatory, 1934
Coit Tower is a 210-foot tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, overlooking the city and San Francisco Bay. The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built between 193
View from Washington Square Park in 2024
Coit Tower in 2008, looking WSW
Robert Boardman Howard's cast concrete relief of a phoenix is placed above the main entrance to the tower.
Detail from Ray Boynton's fresco Animal Force and Machine Force, crediting the Public Works of Art Project