This is a role the Forest Glen annex also played in subsequent wars. Psychiatric patients were identified, and to an extent stigmatized, by wearing maroon hospital clothing. For many years this painting was on display at the Forest Glen annex in Silver Spring, Maryland.
(from a publication by the Borden Institute)
The painting is egg tempera on canvas and measures 7 by 10.5 feet. It now is on display at the museum.
I also found a website while searching for whatever I could find on the artist. It's the New Deal Art Registry, a fun site to browse.
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Jack McMillen did several US Post Office murals prior to WWII commissioned by the Section at the Treasury. (BTW: his mural is still on the wall at the College Park, GA post office across the street from the first MARTA stop from the Atlanta airport.) However, the mural of the Forest Glenn Annex was painted while he was recuperating from surgery to remove a large tumor in his chest. He was sent to Walter Reed from a base in Georgia where he was training in 1944. It was his 'thank you' for saving his life.
Mr. McMillen did a wall mural on the Tuscumbia, AL post office called "Chief Tuscumbia Greets the Dickson Family". It's a wonderful piece of work. Recently the post office moved & sold the building to the city. The mural was removed and we had concerns that it was being stored properly or was destroyed in the remodeling a topic of which has been under much discussion on our Remember Tuscumbia page on Facebook. Anyway I was trying to find information on the artist to post on the page and haven't been able to find much on him.
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