Ernest Norling Sites

The post office contains a 4' x 24' 1938 Section of Fine Arts oil-on-canvas mural by Ernest Norling entitled "Northwest Logging." The mural was restored in 1994-95. "Norling completed two Washington State Post Office murals during the New Deal period, one in Bremerton and one in Prosser. He also painted documentary images of the state's CCC camps for the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP). During an oral history interview in 1964, Norling reflected on his knowledge of the logging industry and how that helped him with the mural: "I knew pretty well the lumbering industry. I'd work when I went to high...

Prosser's historic post office contains a 1937 Section of Fine Arts mural by Ernest Norling entitled "Mail Train in the '80s". "According to the 1991 National Register of Historic Places nomination form for the Prosser Post Office,  'The lobby of the Prosser MPO contains a mural entitled "Mail Train in the 80's. Painted by Ernest Norling in 1937 at a cost of $550, the mural is oil on canvas (approximately 6 feet by 14 feet) and glued to the wall over the postmaster's door. The mural depicts the activity on the Northern Pacific's depot platform, while a smoke-belching steam engine and...