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Historic hospital murals in New York

Research record PAH-034 · Finding, limitations, sources and publication relationships.

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· 1940 · United States

Findings, methods and sources

PracticeProgramme / guidanceContext / synthesis

Finding. New Deal-era hospital murals document an established civic tradition of art within healthcare.

Limitation. Historical intentions and clinicians' impressions are not controlled outcome evidence.

Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, Healing Walls: Health and Art in New Deal New York.

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Design
Historical record
Sample / scope
See source for sample and design
Setting
Public hospitals
Art form
Murals

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No confirmed shared-publication match is recorded for this entry in Edition 4.11. Source-by-source and participant-level reconciliation is incomplete; this does not establish an independent study.

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Public Art & Health. Historic hospital murals in New York. Research record PAH-034. Edition 4.11, 29 September 2026. https://www.publicart.health/research/pah-034

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