Krehbiel was a strong influence on many young WPA artists.
Postle, a former WPA artist, is known for her paintings of Florida wildlife scenes and in particular birds.
The lobby features a mural of the region by Stephen Rosen, another WPA artist.
During the 1950s, many WPA artists were thought to be in collusion with Communists.
The rise of fascism and the emerging opposition to Roosevelt administration policies by conservative critics led many WPA artists to voice a political position.
WPA artists decorated the underground stations with art-deco scenes from life on the defunct Morris Canal.
He worked for the government, one of the WPA artists' projects.
His works represented the social realism that was popular with WPA artists of the time.
He was known to be among the early group of WPA artists working in the screen print (serigraph) medium, as well as oil.
As a WPA artist from 1934 to 1941 he executed many commissioned murals in a sturdy, somewhat abstracted figurative style.