Mural-Ariel-Rios-Brook-1

{{en|1=Photograph of mural "Writing the family letter" by Alexander Brook at the Ariel Rios Federal Building in Washington, D.C. Notes: * Date: 1939; dimensions: 11' 2" x 6' 3". * Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. * Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. * Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,. * Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083). * Forms part of: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. Mural information from the General Services Administration Quiet and spare, like the easel paintings for which Brook was known, Writing the Family Letter depicts a woman and three children at home. Each figure looks away from the others, creating a sense of separation that belies their close quarters. The girl at the table writes a letter, presumably meant for the young man, shown seated in the mural on the right, who has left the family to join the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Men in the CCC were required to be unmarried and between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, so the girl at the table likely writes to her brot

Date

2011-09

Collection

Carol M. Highsmith Archive

Archive

Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

photograph

Original size

2,663 × 4,811 pixels

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