Rachel Klipa works for the Office of Public Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Her current research pertains to New Deal post-office murals by industrial designer Alexander J. Kostellow (1897-1954), and Serbia's first modern artist Nadežda Petrović (1873-1915).

 

Howard Cook, Steel Industry, 1936, commissioned by the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture Photograph courtesy of the United States General Services Administration

Stuyvesant van Veen, Pittsburgh Panorama, 1937, commissioned by the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture Photograph courtesy of the United States General Services Administration