12 Facts About Harold Lehman

Harold Lehman was an American artist known for his murals for the Works Progress Administration.

Harold Lehman moved to California as a teenager and attended Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles.

In 1931, upon graduating from Manual Arts High School, Lehman won a citywide competition for a sculpture scholarship to Otis Art Institute.

Harold Lehman became interested in the Post-Surrealist movement in Los Angeles and studied under Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg.

When Siqueiros came to New York to attend first American Artist's Congress he and Harold Lehman got together and formed the Siqueiros Workshop.

In 1937, Harold Lehman began working for the Federal Art Project.

Harold Lehman created the mural Our Daily Bread for the Riker's Island Prison.

Harold Lehman began creating posters in 1943 for the US Treasury Department to support War Bond Drives.

In 1946, Harold Lehman returned to New York and taught art at his studio and in 1950 married one of his students, Leona Koutras, with whom he had two children.

Harold Lehman was chief designer of the Coca-Cola Pavilion at the New York World's Fair and later the World of Man at Expo '67 in Montreal Canada.

Harold Lehman died on April 2,2006, in Leonia, New Jersey.

Harold Lehman's work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, where he contributed to the Index of American Design, and in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.