© The Field Museum, #B79511
Open air market, Mexico, by Julius Moessel
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The eighteen murals (including two maps) hanging in the Plants of the World Hall are among the more interesting footnotes in The Field Museum's--and Chicago's--artistic history.The murals were painted between 1938 and 1940 by artist Julius Moessel, a German painter who earned considerable local distinction after settling in Chicago in 1929. |
| The project was supported by the Works Progress Administration, a Federal agency created to employ people on public works projects during the Great Depression. (These murals, in fact, constitute just one example of the many artistic, scientific, and other endeavors supported by the WPA at The Field Museum during the thirties and forties). |
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