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Lunken’s Forgotten Murals and the Artist Who Created Them

by Franck Mercurio, Publications Editor

12/23/2024

Lunken Airport murals, WPA, New Deal, Art Deco, William Harry Gothard, CAMConservation, Sky Galley

In December 1937, the Cincinnati Enquirer interviewed William “Harry” Gothard (1908–1968), a 29-year-old artist and budding art conservator, as he painted the final touches on two murals created for Lunken Airport’s newly constructed Administration building.

John C. Lutz Rediscovered

by Julie Aronson, PhD, Curator of American Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings

8/7/2024

John C. Lutz, Curatorial Blog, Works Progress Administration, WPA, Great Depression, Black Sunday

The Cincinnati Art Museum recently acquired the painting Black Sunday of 1937 by John C. Lutz, the only Black artist in Cincinnati (and one of four in Ohio) hired on the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the government program that provided employment during the Great Depression.

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