Public art, private reflections by Michael Warshaw, Globe Staff

I was in my 20s when I discovered that my grandfather, Abraham Lishinsky, painted giant murals, vistas of human progress, for the WPA and other jobs programs of Roosevelt’s New Deal. I read it in a magazine article that described his 1938 history of civilization at Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn, minutes from my birthplace.

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