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Johnson City

Artist: Frederic Knight
Title: ?
Date: 1937
Agency: TRAP
Medium: oil (?)
Size: ?
Location: U.S. Post Office, Johnson City, N.Y.

The set of murals were done for the Johnson City, NY U.S. Post Office in 1937. The artist was Frederic Knight. The medium is oil.

Frederic C. Knight was born in Philadelphia in 1898. He lived in Scranton, Pennsylvania much of his life. As a child he attended P.S. # 28. At 14 years of age, in February 1913, he placed first in a city-wide drawing contest, with an Abraham Lincoln pen drawing. He was recommended for a state scholarship to the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia. Upon graduating, he won the top three graduation honors, one was for general excellence and another for drawing. Knight took a job teaching at the school. In 1929, he won an Artist's Association prize for best body of work by a newcomer. He was the founding member of An American Group, Inc.(an artist's organization), an he served as president from 1934-1939. After 1936, he was active in affairs of the American Artists Congress. During the Depression, times were hard for artists. In December 1932, the College Art Association petition New York City's Emergency Work Bureau for special make-work programs for artists. This later developed into the Federal Art Project, a massive work-relief effort of the New Deal. In New York this was coordinated by Knight's brother, Harry Knight. Frederic Knight painted a mural panel for the Catholic Medical Mission Board on West 17th Street in Brooklyn. Frederic started to create art with more social realism and showed desire to paint scenes of industrial activity. He felt art could be a weapon in the war for social justice.

  1. Ship Mail
  2. Mill Work and the Camera Industry
  3. Shoe Industry - Tanning
  4. Unloading of Air Mail
  5. Shoe Industry - sewing on tops, etc.
  6. Truck and Dairy Farming
  7. Train Mail
  8. Schools
  9. Track
  10. Football
  11. Hospitals
REFLECTIONS

During the course of the project we learned how to work together as a team. We also learned that when we get one piece of information, we have to branch off and find paths to new information. Art can be a valuable insight to histroy. This is the most in depth work on the internet we have ever done. In conclusion, we learned about Johnson City through researching our project.

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