• Post Office Mural - Watonga OK
    The historic post office in Watonga, Oklahoma houses New Deal artwork. The oil-on-canvas mural, entitled "Roman Nose Canyon," was completed by Edith Mahier in 1941 and installed in the post office lobby, where it is still viewable today. From the National Register of Historic Places nomination for the mural (via Waymarking.com): Edith Mahier was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1892. She received a Bachelor of Design degree from Newcomb Memorial College School of Art in 1916 and accepted a professorship in the art department at the University of Oklahoma (OU) the following year. Around 1926, Susie Peters, Kiowa Field Matron, showed the...