A spotlight singles out one section of a roiling mass of people in this print by M. Lois Murphy. Crowd scenes like Election Night demonstrate the power of collective action, a popular subject for WPA art. Alongside strikes and mass meetings, elections were one of many tools that organizers used to address the crises of the 1930s. Rather than documenting a specific election or representing individual voters casting their ballots, Murphy’s work captures the energy of a crowd whose collective will has determined their next set of representatives. In the foreground, a woman wearing a fur collar gazes quietly out at the viewer, perhaps dissatisfied with the results.