Albuquerque NM 18 June 2019: The
Albuquerque Veterans Administration
Hospital, 1501 S. San Pedro SE, known today as the Raymond G. Murphy VA
Medical Center. The building shown (Building Number 1) was
built in 1931 and opened its doors August 22, 1932;
therefore it is not a New Deal construction[1]. The rest of buildings on
the VA campus were built 1949 and later, and are not New Deal either.
However, Building 1 contains New Deal art in the form of decorative
ceiling wood carvings[2], shown in the
following
images.
References
- New Mexico VA
Health Care System - Our History, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs,
albuquerque.va.gov, accessed 10 July 2019.
- Albuquerque
Veterans' Hospital, New Deal Art Registry, newdealartregistry.org,
accessed 10 July 2019: "Albuquerque Veterans' Hospital, Decorative Ceiling
Wood Carving, Program: WPA Federal Art Project (WPA-FAP)".
- Kathryn A. Flynn, Public Art and Architecture in New Mexico
1933-1943: A guide to the New Deal Legacy, Sunstone Press (2012), p.29:
"Building No.1 which currently houses the Psychology Department ... has
unusually fine carved animal heads on the corbels which are at the ends of
the ceiling vigas."