Mitchell Jamieson Sites

Mitchell Jamieson painted this oil on canvas mural, entitled "The Roundhouse," in 1941, with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. From the Willard Times, March 27, 1941: "A beautiful mural entitled 'The Roundhouse at Willard,' depicting railroad employes repairing locomotives, now adorns the north wall of Willard’s post office.  It was placed there Friday and painted by Mitchell Jamieson, artist of Washington, D. C., who painted it for the Federal Works Agency, Public Building Administration, Washington as a government project. The painting done on canvas is seven by fourteen feet and shows men working on three locomotives in various...

Mitchell Jamieson painted this mural "Tobacco Cutters" in 1938 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts in what was previously the post office.

The Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior building contains one of the largest collections of New Deal art in Washington DC by some of the finest American artists of the time. Mitchell Jamieson's painting, "An Incident in Contemporary American Life," depicts the  April 9, 1939 Marian Anderson concert at the Lincoln Memorial.  That concert came about after the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused to allow Anderson to sing before an integrated audience in Constitution Hall.  That incident infuriated many people, including Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who arranged for a public concert...

Mitchell Jamieson painted the mural “Tobacco Cutters” in 1938 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts to hang in the former Upper Marlboro post office. The building is now the Upper Marlboro branch of the Prince George's County public library.  The mural is located over the circulation desk.