• Post Office - Canastota NY
    The historic post office building in Canastota, New York "was designed and built in 1940, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Louis A. Simon. It is a one story, three bay steel frame building with facades of red brick laid in common bond in the Colonial Revival style. It features a gable roof crowned by a square, wooden cupola. The interior features a 1942 mural by Alison Mason Kingsbury titled "The Onion Fields.""
  • Post Office Mural - Canastota NY
    Section of Fine Arts mural entitled "The Onion Fields" painted in 1942 by Alison Mason Kingsbury. "It was a piece that valorized the work of the local onion workers, many of whom where immigrants from Russia, and was aptly titled The Onion Fields. Its subjects, a male and a female farmer, are a clear departure from the artist's earlier figures, filled out as they were in a stocky body types reminiscent of both Mexican and Soviet art." (https://rmc.library.cornell.edu)