August Henkel murals
August Henkel murals
- Artist/Author/Producer: August Henkel
- Confronting Bodies: Federal Art Project
- Dates of action: 1940
- Location: Brooklyn, New York
- Description of the Art Work
- August Henkel's murals
- Description of incident
- August Henkel's murals at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennet Airport are taken down
and destroyed.
The Relief Bill of 1940 required artists to sign loyalty oath of Federal
Art Project artists and specifically excluded communists from the
program. August Henkel refused to sign the loyalty oath in the FAP
contract, resulting in the removal of his murals.
- Results of incident
- In 1943 all funding for the WPA stops.
Source: Art Journal, "Time Line," Robert Atkins, Fall '91, Vol. 50 #3,pg. 34
