Category:Salt River Irrigation Project, Arizona (mural)

Salt River Irrigation Project, Arizona was created in 1928 and predates the New Deal arts projects.

• General Services Administration
• Katherine Heslop. "Making the Desert Blossom: Spreading the Gospel of Irrigation". Journal of the Southwest, Spring 2014, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Spring 2014), pp. 29–51. Stable URL
  Excerpt — Making the Desert Blossom, a 1928 painting by Frank J. MacKenzie of the Salt River Valley near Phoenix, Arizona, is a portrait of the social and cultural reclamation geographies presented by the challenges of arid-land soils. The Bureau of Reclamation commissioned plein aire artist MacKenzie to create this panoramic painting for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition in Seville, Spain. ... Making the Desert Blossom was the title given to the reclamation exhibit at the 1929 Ibero-American Exhibition in Seville. A January 1929 Reclamation Era cover featured a close-up portion of the MacKenzie painting captioned "The Desert Reclaimed" but no confirmation if that was the official title of the painting. The Department of the Interior presently catalogs the painting as the Salt River Irrigation Project, Arizona, and it is located at the Department of the Interior Building, Washington, D.C.