A Life in Art
Fogel's art and murals, and the indelible mark they leave on communities from coast to coast.
Rejected Arizona Mural
In 1939, Seymour Fogel entered the United States Department of the Treasury’s Forty-Eight States Mural Competition, a national program intended to place a historically themed mural in a new post office in each of the forty-eight states. For the new post office in Safford, Arizona, Fogel proposed a bold design centered on Native American culture.
In Focus: The Cohen Building Murals
Seymour Fogel’s murals The Wealth of the Nation (1941) and The Security of the People (1941) were created for the Social Security Building, now known as the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C. Positioned within the building’s entrance areas, these works reflect central New Deal themes …