The Arts of Life in America: Unemployment, Radical Protest, Speed, 1932: In 1932 Juliana Force, the director of the recently founded Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, commissioned Benton to do a set of murals for the reading room of the museum's library. The series, called The Arts of Life in America, included four large wall panels, a lunette, and three long ceiling panels, one of which is the Chrysler Museum of Art's Unemployment, Radical Protest, Speed.