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Meeting of the Winter Patrol (mural study, Conservation of the National Park, U.S. Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.) The holidays are over. It's time to make good on your New Year's resolution to get more exercise!

Take inspiration from our mural study, Meeting of the Winter Patrol, which was made for the U.S. Department of Interior. If you don't have sled dogs, then ice skate, ski, play hockey, or enjoy some other winter sport!

If you're intent on staying indoors, then exercise your brain with our website! Go to our search page and see how many Depression-era murals you can find digitized! The Smithsonian American Art Museum holds dozens of mural studies made during the Great Depression as part of federal government programs to provide jobs for artists and to create public art for the nation.

Pictured: Gifford Beal, 1879–1956, Meeting of the Winter Patrol (mural study, Conservation of the National Park, U.S. Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.), about 1941, oil on fiberboard, 26 1/8 x 56 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service.