The central figure is Noah sheltering a child, while being surrounded by representations of the Genesis flood, Job, Sodom and Gomorrah, Cain and Abel, and Adam and Eve.

"[5] In November 1956, Lebrun visited Pomona in preparation for a solo exhibition for his work at its art gallery organized by Peter Selz.

He admired José Clemente Orozco's fresco Prometheus in Frary and expressed an interest in painting a work in conversation with it.

The project stalled, however, after the Pomona Board of Trustees suggested that Lebrun submit sketches to the college's Buildings and Grounds Committee for approval, which he—along with Selz and the Winstons—viewed as a violation of his artistic freedom.

[2] Seldon Rodman wrote in The New York Times that it was "the most ambitious mural painting north of the Rio Grande".