Harold Egan Sites

Harold Egan's "The Richness of the Soil" was completed in 1939 for the Okolona, Mississippi post office. It was ordered painted over by the postmaster within days of its installation, for reasons that are not entirely clear, but most likely, related to the elements of modernism in the mural. Egan's work was not the typical realism or regionalism favored by the South in post office murals. Undocumented, but commonly accepted, reasons also include that the "female figure was too risqué for the 1930s" and that the "scantily clad woman was not well received." However, Mark Clinton Davis of the Pearl River...