Samuel Gompers High School
[2] Samuel Gompers High School is the site for a notable Federal Art Project mural created in 1936 by Eric Mose.The artist of two decades ago probably would have pictured light as a Greek lady with a torch, or possibly as Prometheus.The central "figure" is a stylized abstraction of the sun, seen in design with a prism, which relates to a broad band of color that runs along the top of the mural and is broken up into brilliant stripes—the spectrum.Those forms are all carried out in color-design derived from the spectrum above, and interestingly applied to individual objects such as infra-red, violet ray and other "light" instruments.Thus the mural, a great field of glowing, angled color that looks, superficially, like something by a cubist, and has the quality of Chartres stained glass, is at the same time an accurate scientific chart.