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This collection attempts to document all the murals and relief undertaken in the state of California as part of art projects funded by the New Deal. This includes not only work undertaken through the Federal Art Project as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) but also post office murals funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts in the United States Department of the Treasury.

The majority of this project was put together with funding from a grant from the SDSU University Grant Program. Additionally, research was undertaken using other New Deal resources, most notably Living New Deal, which was generous with supplying photographs and whose website covers a much larger aspect of the New Deal, including all of the states and all works done under the project. Many photographs were also found through the New Deal Art Registry, another online organization that documents the work done during the era. Additional photographs were supplied by various organizations in possession of the artwork and are credited in the individual pieces.

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Ancient Education
Close-up of a mosaic of a classical scholar working at a desk. Located in a corridor behind the library. Funded by the Federal Art Project., Susan Stutzman, library(510) 594-2626,,Complete. LB 7/3/08.,, A grant from the SDSU University Grant Program funded the project.
Animal Force and Machine Force
Mural containing both rural and industrial scenes of California. A bronze plaque commemorates the inner signal station on Telegraph Hill in 1849 and the first western telegraph in 1853. A boy holds a book with the date of Coit Tower (1933) and of the PWAP (1934). Artist Gordon Langon is portrayed as a farmhand and the artist's wife Kathleen Boynton harvests grapes. Funded by the Public Works of Art Project., Complete. LB 7/12/08.,, A grant from the SDSU University Grant Program funded the project.
Animal Force and Machine Force
Close-up of a mural containing both rural and industrial scenes of California. A bronze plaque commemorates the inner signal station on Telegraph Hill in 1849 and the first western telegraph in 1853. A boy holds a book with the date of Coit Tower (1933) and of the PWAP (1934). Artist Gordon Langon is portrayed as a farmhand and the artist's wife Kathleen Boynton harvests grapes. Funded by the Public Works of Art Project., Complete. LB 7/12/08.,, A grant from the SDSU University Grant Program funded the project.
Animal Force and Machine Force
Close-up of a mural containing both rural and industrial scenes of California. A bronze plaque commemorates the inner signal station on Telegraph Hill in 1849 and the first western telegraph in 1853. A boy holds a book with the date of Coit Tower (1933) and of the PWAP (1934). Artist Gordon Langon is portrayed as a farmhand and the artist's wife Kathleen Boynton harvests grapes. Funded by the Public Works of Art Project., Complete. LB 7/12/08.,, A grant from the SDSU University Grant Program funded the project.
Animal Force and Machine Force
Close-up of a mural containing both rural and industrial scenes of California. A bronze plaque commemorates the inner signal station on Telegraph Hill in 1849 and the first western telegraph in 1853. A boy holds a book with the date of Coit Tower (1933) and of the PWAP (1934). Artist Gordon Langon is portrayed as a farmhand and the artist's wife Kathleen Boynton harvests grapes. Funded by the Public Works of Art Project., Complete. LB 7/12/08.,, A grant from the SDSU University Grant Program funded the project.
Animal Force and Machine Force
Close-up of a mural containing both rural and industrial scenes of California. A bronze plaque commemorates the inner signal station on Telegraph Hill in 1849 and the first western telegraph in 1853. A boy holds a book with the date of Coit Tower (1933) and of the PWAP (1934). Artist Gordon Langon is portrayed as a farmhand and the artist's wife Kathleen Boynton harvests grapes. Funded by the Public Works of Art Project., Complete. LB 7/12/08.,, A grant from the SDSU University Grant Program funded the project.
Animal Force and Machine Force
Close-up of a mural containing both rural and industrial scenes of California. A bronze plaque commemorates the inner signal station on Telegraph Hill in 1849 and the first western telegraph in 1853. A boy holds a book with the date of Coit Tower (1933) and of the PWAP (1934). Artist Gordon Langon is portrayed as a farmhand and the artist's wife Kathleen Boynton harvests grapes. Funded by the Public Works of Art Project., Complete. LB 7/12/08.,, A grant from the SDSU University Grant Program funded the project.
Animal Force and Machine Force
Close-up of a mural containing both rural and industrial scenes of California. A bronze plaque commemorates the inner signal station on Telegraph Hill in 1849 and the first western telegraph in 1853. A boy holds a book with the date of Coit Tower (1933) and of the PWAP (1934). Artist Gordon Langon is portrayed as a farmhand and the artist's wife Kathleen Boynton harvests grapes. Funded by the Public Works of Art Project., Complete. LB 7/12/08.,, A grant from the SDSU University Grant Program funded the project.
Animal Force and Machine Force
Close-up of a mural containing both rural and industrial scenes of California. A bronze plaque commemorates the inner signal station on Telegraph Hill in 1849 and the first western telegraph in 1853. A boy holds a book with the date of Coit Tower (1933) and of the PWAP (1934). Artist Gordon Langon is portrayed as a farmhand and the artist's wife Kathleen Boynton harvests grapes. Funded by the Public Works of Art Project., Complete. LB 7/12/08.,, A grant from the SDSU University Grant Program funded the project.
Animal Force and Machine Force
Close-up of a mural containing both rural and industrial scenes of California. A bronze plaque commemorates the inner signal station on Telegraph Hill in 1849 and the first western telegraph in 1853. A boy holds a book with the date of Coit Tower (1933) and of the PWAP (1934). Artist Gordon Langon is portrayed as a farmhand and the artist's wife Kathleen Boynton harvests grapes. Funded by the Public Works of Art Project., Complete. LB 7/12/08.,, A grant from the SDSU University Grant Program funded the project.
Animal Force and Machine Force
Close-up of a mural containing both rural and industrial scenes of California. A bronze plaque commemorates the inner signal station on Telegraph Hill in 1849 and the first western telegraph in 1853. A boy holds a book with the date of Coit Tower (1933) and of the PWAP (1934). Artist Gordon Langon is portrayed as a farmhand and the artist's wife Kathleen Boynton harvests grapes. Funded by the Public Works of Art Project., Complete. LB 7/12/08.,, A grant from the SDSU University Grant Program funded the project.
Animal Force and Machine Force
Close-up of a mural containing both rural and industrial scenes of California. A bronze plaque commemorates the inner signal station on Telegraph Hill in 1849 and the first western telegraph in 1853. A boy holds a book with the date of Coit Tower (1933) and of the PWAP (1934). Artist Gordon Langon is portrayed as a farmhand and the artist's wife Kathleen Boynton harvests grapes. Funded by the Public Works of Art Project., Complete. LB 7/12/08.,, A grant from the SDSU University Grant Program funded the project.

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