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The following appraisal of the WPA art produced in New York appeared in the New York Herald-Tribune, the leading Republican newspaper in the United States:

W.P.A. ART NOT "TERRIBLE THINGS"ON WALLS OF CITY BUILDINGS, BUT GOOD WORK, EXPERTS SAY

I. N. Phelps Stokes and Ernest Peixotto Discover a Higher Quality in Relief Murals in Municipal Buildings, With a Halt in the Radical Trend; The Look to World's Fair as a New Stimulus. 

By Edward Angly

Whether wittily or with humorous fury of one who has just paid an income tax in the higher brackets, it is fashionable to berate the Federal relief and recovery extravagances, to chuckle over "boondoggling," to denounce political wirepulling on the Federal pay roll. But when it comes to art -- the kind that is no longer than depressions -- New York City has no little cause to be pleased with many of the results of the government's effort, through the Works Progress Administration, to keep the wolf from the door of painters. 

That is the judgement of men qualified to know, of such men as I.N. Philps Stokes, chairman of the Art Commission of the City of New York, and Ernest Peixotto, the distinguished writer and painter who, as a member of the commission, passes on the murals and other decorations being placed in public schools, libraries and other civic buildings through Federal work relief funds. 

Both Mr. Stokes and Mr. Peixotto, in separate conversations, confessed their surprise last week at the growing excellence of the