Frank Rutkoski

Painting/Drawing

1905 – 2000

WPA

Biography/Description of Work

Of three WPA murals installed in the New Britain High School and entitled ‘American Industry’ (1941) at least one was painted by Frank Rutkoski . Little is known about the artist. The high school has been rehabbed into Senior Citizen Housing and the murals are preserved in the library.

Sources view
WPA Art Inventory Project, CT State Library [ http://wpa.cslib.org/index.php/550/rutkoski-frank/ ] WPA Murals web site. [ http://www.wpamurals.com/newbritn.htm ] Blomstrann, Lois. The Great Depression, the WPA and the FAP, New Britain Industiral Museum Quarterly, Vol IX, No. 2. accessed at [ http://www.wpamurals.com/newbritn.pdf ]
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