Photo: Lea Rosson DeLong

Nation at Work

George Verle Grooms
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In the 1982 “A Catalog of New Des Mural Projects in Iowa”, co-authors Lea Rosson DeLong and Gregg R. Narber explained that the Grooms’ painting “portrays school activities of children and, in its center, the adult world of work: two classrooms are shown, one obviously a biology class, as well as a shop classroom. The adult work shown is building, typing and shoveling.”

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41.591086, -93.658359

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Location Description

Painted along south stairway inside Callanan Middle School, located at the southeast corner of 31st and Center Streets, Des Moines, Ia.

Art Type

Mural

Media / Materials

Oil on Canvas

Year Completed

1936

Credit

Des Moines Public Schools