"Missouri Ave" is an oil on canvas landscape painting in the Impressionist style. It depicts a view of the Missouri Avenue, located in the North East district of Kansas City, Missouri. The painting showcases multi-story buildings on either side of a street view with both automobiles and pedestrians. Businesses are visible on the left hand side of the work by the store front signs of "Tailor" and "Loans." "Missouri Ave" is an original painting signed by the artist. The artist, Otto Moilan, used a primarily muted color palette to depict the scene with a color range of brown, green, gray and red ochre. The oil on canvas work is noted as being painted for the W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration). The W.P.A. Federal Art Project, was the first major attempt at government patronage for the visual arts in the United States and the most persuasive and expansive of the visual arts projects conceived during the 1930's Depression Era by the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.