• Post Office Mural - Louisville OH
    The post office in Louisville, Ohio houses a 1941 Section of Fine Arts mural by Herschel Levit entitled "Farm and Mill." The mural is tempera, 4 1/2 x 14 feet, 1941. “An explicit statement of the union of interests of the working class appears in Herschel Levit’s mural for Louisville. A Pennsylvania artist who has recently been recognized for his architectural photography, Levit portrayed large, muscular figures who smile and wave to each other as the industrial workers leave for the mill and the farmers attend to their chores.” The mural was painted for the old Louisville post office, but when the post...
  • Recorder of Deeds Building: Levit Mural - Washington DC
    “Although the ROD Building was a municipal building, the District of Columbia's peculiar sovereignty status required that the federal government approve its construction, and that the Treasury Department Section of Fine Art play a major role in its art program… The Treasury Sections December 1, 1942 announcement of the ROD Building mural competition was a term paper-like, ten page document that required artists to submit their entries unsigned for anonymous judging… A press release announced that the winners wide geographic dispersion and almost equal female-male ratio, as well as the inclusion of accomplished African-American painter William Edouard Scott, proved the fairness of...