- Post Office Mural - East Hartford CTThis tempera mural "The Stop of Hooker's Band in East Hartford before Crossing the River" was one of 48-State Competition Post Office Murals. It has been damaged, but half of the mural remains. "This five by thirteen foot mural, painted in egg tempera, was the result of a Public Works Administration national competition held in 1940, when Tobey was still an art student at Yale. The painting was influenced by the works of Italian fresco painter Piero della Francesca, and the style is different from the realism that characterizes most of Tobey's other historical works. Although popularly referred to as "The...