The Wealth of the Nation
- Title : The Wealth of the Nation
- Artist: Seymour Fogel Artist Section of Fine Arts, Treasury Department Commissioner
- Accession: 84.5.99
- Country: United States New York New York
- Date: 1938
- Dimensions: Inches 9-3/4 14-1/8, Centimeters 24.8 35.9
- Collection: Object
- Collection Theme: WPA and the New Deal
- Subject: Laborers/Workers , Figurative , Industry , Public Works , WPA/Federal Arts Project , New Deal
- Credit Line: The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
- URL: 84.5.99.JPG
- Tags: WPA and the New Deal~Paintings and Scuplture
Description:
Tempera on paper mural study depicting figures devoted to construction, industry, and scientific research; in the foreground is an architect using a tool to measure an area of a blueprint; in the middle ground, at left is a scientist seated at a table looking in a microscopes (behind him are beakers and other scientific objects); in the center of the middle ground is a man in overalls in front of a machine pulling on a lever; at the right of the center ground are two construction workers, one in overalls and one shirtless, in conversation with their backs to the viewer; in the background, at right, is a factory scene.
