• Sonora High School Mural - Sonora CA
    This mural "Lumbering, Agriculture and Mining" was moved from the original location to the new Sonora High School Library in 1976: "Acclaimed watercolor artist George Post was hired by the in 1936. His first assignment was a mural to be painted for Sonora High School depicting industries in Tuolumne County, which included lumber, mining and agriculture. Post created the only oil painting of his career, a mural eight feet high by 36 feet long, which is still in the Sonora High library today. The work took him a month and a half to complete, Post said in a 1964 interview with the...