WPA Murals Discovered at University of Rhode Island

A summer renovation project at the University of Rhode Island has uncovered six murals created in the 1930s and 1940s for the Works Progress Adminstration. They are the work of Gino Conti, a Providence artist who completed his final set of mural paintings for the lobby of Edwards Hall at what was then known as Rhode Island State College. Historians believed the canvases to be lost until a team of workers renovating the 900-seat auditorium discovered them beneath walls and panelling erected in the 1960s.