Health and Hospital Corporation
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Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center Abram Champanier Alexandra Kasuba
North Central Bronx Hospital
Saul Baizerman Ilya Bolotowsky Helen Frankenthaler Richard Pousette-Dart
Jacobi Medical Center Milton Hebald Jose DeCreeft Donald De Lue
Segundo Ruiz Belvis Community Care Center William Tarr |
Helen Frankenthaler
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North Central Bronx Hospital
Ilya Bolotowsky
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North Central Bronx Hospital
The New York City Health and Hospital Corporation, the municipal hospital system of the City of New York, is comprised of over 23 various medical facilities serving the metropolitan area. Since its inception in the late 1930's, the art collection of the corporation has grown to include over 5,000 works. Among these are sculptures, stained glass, tapestries, murals, paintings and works on paper. During the Great Depression under the leadership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP) provided jobs for artists and promoted American culture. Through the WPA/FAP, New York City public hospitals received nearly 60 projects, primarily large-scale mural paintings with themes that were thought to be therapeutic and relevant to the hospital setting. The Federal government ended its support of the arts in the 1940s, but broad public patronage was revived in the 1960s and 1970s and New York City's Percent for Art law was passed in 1982. Today the HHC and the Percent for Art Program continue to create and maintain art which reflects the quality, diversity, and vitality of modern American art throughout its collection.
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Alexandra Kasuba
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Lincoln Medical and Mental Center
Richard Pousette-Dart
Presence, Healing Circles
North Central Bronx Hospital
William Tarr
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Segundo Ruiz Belvis Community Care Center
Jose DeCreeft
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Jacobi Medical Center
Donald De Lue
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Jacobi Medical Center
Abram Champanier
Alice in Wonderland at NYC
Lincoln Medical and Mental Center
