Photograph of artist Eric Mose with mural "Power" at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Gompers_High_School" class="extiw" title="w:Samuel Gompers High School">Samuel Gompers Industrial High School for Boys</a>, Bronx, New York
<ul><li>Information from the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://schools.nyc.gov/community/facilities/PublicArt/Art/artitem.htm?e=7&amp;an=21331">New York City Department of Education</a>:</li></ul><dl><dd>POWER, 1936<br>ERIC MOSE<br>FRESCO SECCO, 300 SQ. FT.<br>455 SOUTHERN BLVD, BRONX, NY</dd></dl><ul><li>Brenner, Anita. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A02EED6153CEF3ABC4852DFB2668383629EDE">"America Creates American Murals".</a> <i>The New York Times</i>, April 10, 1938, (excerpt, pp. 11, 19)</li></ul><dl><dd>Look, for instance, at the fresco by Erik [sic] Mose in the library of the Samuel Gompers High School, a technical school for boys which is part of the public-school system. The central theme of this mural is Light. The artist of two decades ago probably would have pictured light as a Greek lady with a torch, or possibly as Prometheus. Mose, however, has combined cubism with physics. The central "figure" is a stylized abstraction of the sun, seen in design with a prism, which relates to a broad band of color that runs along the top of the mural and is broken up into brilliant stripes—the spectrum.</dd></dl><dl><dd>Beneath this field the artist has made an abstract design of the forms through which we know light and power. One recognizes spark-plugs, dynamos and such actual electrical machines as a fan. Those forms are all carried out in color-design derived from the spectrum above, and interestingly applied to individual objects such as infra-red, violet ray and other "light" instruments.</dd></dl><dl><dd>Thus the mural, a great field of glowing, angled color that looks, superficially, like something by a cubist, and has the quality of Chartres stained glass, is at the same time an accurate scientific chart. Moveover, it is used as one by the school, and so effectively that almost any boy one may find in the library can explain its design.</dd></dl>
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Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project; photographer unknown</div>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/eric-mose-2867">Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution</a>