Andrew McDuffie Vincent Sites

The post office contains a 1940 Section of Fine Arts mural by Andrew McD. Vincent, Local Theme. "Located southeast of the city of Yakima, Toppenish is located entirely in the Yakama Indian Nation. According to the 1991 National Register nomination for the Toppenish Post Office: "The lobby contains a mural on the west end over the Postmaster's door. Entitled "Local Theme," the mural is oil on canvas." The mural depicts "cattlemen branding a steer, Indian hunters, Whites trading horses with the Indians, and a farm." The artist, Andrew Vincent was born in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1898 and studied at the Art Institute...

This oil-on-canvas mural, entitled "Builders of Salem," was painted in 1942 by Andrew McD. Vincent, with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The original post office lobby was subdivided into Conference Rooms A & B when the building became the Executive Building, and the mural now hangs in Conference Room A (https://www.oregon.gov/DAS/EAM/pages/building_info/executive.aspx).