Post Office Sculpture – Highland Park MI
Date added: December 30, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
“American Eagle” Medium: Stone
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“American Eagle” Medium: Stone
Date added: December 30, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
“Picnic, Lake of the Ozarks” Medium: oil on canvas Size: 5′ x 15′
Date added: December 30, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
“Early Days at Elkin” Medium: terra cotta
Date added: December 30, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
“Cattle Round-Up” Medium: oil on canvas Section funded “Cattle Roundup” painted by Vance Kirkland in 1938.
Date added: December 30, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
The Chesterfield post office contains a 1939 plaster relief by Bruno Mankowski entitled “The Farmer’s Letters,” which was created under the auspices of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The work is still displayed in the lobby of the post office.
Date added: December 29, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
The carved and painted wood bas relief “Power of Communication,” by Perna Krick, hangs in the lobby of the Pocomoke, Maryland post office. It was funded by the federal Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
Date added: December 30, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
“Threshing in Kansas” painted by Lumen Martin Winter in 1942. “Threshing in Kansas” Medium: oil on canvas
Date added: December 30, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
This mural entitled “On the River” by Edmund D. Lewandowski was painted in 1941. It was one of the 48-State post office mural competition winners. The title for this mural is mistakenly listed as “Threshing Grain” in several sources. It… read more
Date added: December 29, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
“Southern Pines Idyll” Medium: oil on canvas
Date added: December 29, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
The mural “The Louisiana Purchase Exposition” was painted by Trew Hocker. The New Deal artwork was installed in the lobby of St. Louis’s University City Station post office and is still visible today.
Date added: December 28, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
“Limestone Quarry Workers” Moved to this location in 1989 Medium: terra cotta
Date added: December 29, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
“Transition” Medium: cast stone
Date added: December 29, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
“Kiln Room, Cement Plant” Medium: oil on canvas
Date added: December 26, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
Henry Bernstein completed this tempera-on-plaster mural, entitled “The Covered Bridge,” in 1941 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is viewable in the Mt. Sterling post office lobby.
Date added: December 28, 2014; Modified: January 18, 2015
The post office contains three plaster bas reliefs by Moissaye Marans, created under the auspices of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts in 1941. The reliefs are called “Transfer of Skill,” “Education,” and “Barnyard.”