In Philadelphia, a Push to Return New Deal Murals to Public View

Pennsylvania is second only to New York in its collection of New Deal post office art, but access to some of the artworks is reserved for those in blue serge ensembles. The situation has sparked a debate over the fate of two New Deal murals painted by Social Realism-minded twin artists Raphael and Moses Soyer that once hung in a Philadelphia branch post office and were assumed to be lost—until they turned up on the walls of the regional corporate offices of the U.S.