Florence Ware Sites

In early 1934,  the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) sponsored ten local artists to decorate the Utah State Capitol, led by Lee Greene Richards. The others included Ranch Kimball, Henri Moser, Gordon Cope, Florence Ware, J.T. Harwood, Walter Midgley and Millard Mallin. Two large half-circle murals grace the ends of the huge central hall of the capitol building. The cupola of the rotunda has a circular mural, about six feet high, and there are four large murals at each corner atop the pillars.  They all depict romanticized scenes from Utah's past: trappers, native people, pioneers, covered wagons, the transcontinental railroad, and so forth. Millard...

The WPA's Federal Art Project commissioned a set of murals for what was then the auditorium of Laramie's East Side School, now the Laramie Plains Civic Center. The murals are still housed in the building. "Wyoming schools also benefited from the WPA Federal Art Project , which was responsible for a number of murals painted inside the buildings. Although the list of school murals is incomplete, it includes ... nine panels in the Laramie High School Auditorium by Florence Ware of Salt Lake City ..." "The Laramie panels remain in the auditorium of the school, which is now the Laramie Plains Civic...