Books
American Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA by Nick Taylor, Bantam, 2008. pp. 274-275.
The Jews of Weequahic by Linda Forgosh. Arcadia Publishing, 2008.
Radical Art. Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York by Helen Langa. University of California Press, 2004.
Michael Lenson Real and Surreal: Paintings from the 30s, 40s & 50s by Janet Marqusee, Janet Marqusee Fine Arts Ltd. (monograph), 1993
Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal by Marlene Park and Gerald Markowitz, Temple University Press, 1984
Engendering Culture by Barbara Menosh, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991
In My Father's Study by Benjamin Orlove, 1998, pp. various
Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey by William H. Gerdts, 1964, pp various
The President's Speech: Illustrated by Nineteen Artists. New York: Independent Voters Committee of the Arts and Sciences for Roosevelt, 1944
Small Miracles of Love and Friendship by Judith Leventhal and Yitta Halberstam, 1999, pp. 210-214
Who Was Who in American Art?, 1999, pp. 1996-1997 (also 1985 edition)
Articles
“Brooklyn Artist Wins $6,000 Prize,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 25, 1928
“Chaloner Prize Awarded,” New York World, May 25, 1928
“In the Galleries,” Howard Devree, New York Times, April 30, 1933
“In the Art Galleries,” Howard Devree, New York Times, February 3, 1935
“A Reporter’s Notebook,” Howard Devree, New York Times, May 19, 1935
“Freeholders Invite You to Murals Unveiling,” Newark Evening News, November 17, 1936
“Murals 1936,” New York Times, November 23, 1936
“World’s Fair Proposals,” Howard Devree, New York Times, March 28, 1937
“Architecture, Art, Life,” F. A. Gutheim, Magazine of Art, May 30, 1937
“Franz Hals Show Opened to Public,” Edward Alden Jewell and Howard Devree, New York Times, November 10, 1937
“Art Under a Democracy,” Edward Alden Jewell, New York Times, May 8, 1938
“Mural Dedication Set for Tuesday,” Newark Evening News, April 1, 1939
“Jersey Murals Rushed for Opening of Fair,” Newark Ledger, April 26, 1939
“Science Speeds Art for Fair Building,” Newark Evening News, April27, 1939
“All in a Days Work at the WPA,” Newark Evening News, December 3, 1940
“Nation Becoming More Art-Conscious, Lenson Says,” Atlantic City Press, March 29, 1941
“Series of Murals to be Given City,” Newark Evening News, June 6, 1941
“Display of Works by Jersey Artists,” Howard Devree, New York Times, May 11, 1943
“Artist Speaks at Mural Ceremony,” Newark Evening News, April 5, 1943
“Michael Lenson to Have Show; Dutch Canvases to Be Seen Here,” Newark Sunday News, January 19, 1947
“30 One-Man Shows,” New York Times, Jan 27, 1947
“Michael Lenson Will Have Show at New York Gallery,” Nutley Sun, January 31, 1947
“Michael Lenson,” Art News, February 1947
“At the Bonestell Gallery,” Art Digest, February 1, 1947, p.22
“Many and Diverse,” Howard Devree, New York Times, February 2, 1947 “Diverse New Shows,” Howard Devree,
New York Times, March 9, 1947
“George Ault’s Art to Be Shown Today, New York Times, January 30, 1950
“Many New Shows at Galleries,” New York Times, December 10, 1951
“Section of Matisse Chapel Design Opens,” Aline B. Louchheim, New York Times, December 14, 1951
“In Brief: Exhibitions,” New York Times, December 16, 1951
“50 Art Exhibitions in Galleries Here,” New York Times, April 4, 1952 “Gallery Openings,” New York Times, February 25, 1962
“News Art Critic’s Paintings to be Shown in Montclair,” Newark Sunday News, October 18, 1970
“Some words well worth a thousand pictures,” Newark Sunday Star-Ledger, November 1, 1970
“Michael Lenson” (Lenson obituary), New York Times, June 11, 1971
“Computer Creates Art in Watchung,” Joseph Bonomo, New York Times, February 2, 1975
“Stalking the Post Office Mural,” Hildreth York and Stuart White, New York Times, March 23, 1980
“Works by Roosevelt Artists and a Retrospective,” Vivien Raynor, New York Times, August 14, 1994
“Creating Murals with Paint and Purpose,” Michelle Falkenstein, New York Times, August 24, 2003.
“A Social Realist Who Later Got Surreal,” Edward Sozansky, Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 14, 2003.
“Nutley's Enclosure Enjoys Little Exposure: Renowned artists once made home in historic area,” Kasi Addison, Newark Star-Ledger, June 6, 2004.
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