The New York City Health and Hospital Corporation, the municipal hospital system of the City of New York, is comprised of over 23 various medical facilities serving the metropolitan area. Since its inception in the late 1930's, the art collection of the corporation has grown to include over 5,000 works. Among these are sculptures, stained glass, tapestries, murals, paintings and works on paper. During the Great Depression under the leadership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP) provided jobs for artists and promoted American culture. Through the WPA/FAP, New York City public hospitals received nearly 60 projects, primarily large-scale mural paintings with themes that were thought to be therapeutic and relevant to the hospital setting. The Federal government ended its support of the arts in the 1940s, but broad public patronage was revived in the 1960s and 1970s and New York City's Percent for Art law was passed in 1982. Today the HHC and the Percent for Art Program continue to create and maintain art which reflects the quality, diversity, and vitality of modern American art throughout its collection.