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Refuge by Emery Donaldson Horsky
Photo CreditDon Douglass
Refuge
Photo CreditDon Douglass

Refuge

Artist
Year1941
Classification painting
Dimensions5' x 7'
Credits WPA, Federal Art Project, 1935 - 1943
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
Location
  • The painting Refuge is one of the many works of art commissioned by the Southern California Art Project, which was a division of the FAP. Created in 1941, the paintings were originally installed at the Naval Training Center in San Diego, California. Executed in heavily saturated earth tones, the large-scale paintings attempt to portray the beauty and vastness of America's western landscape.