J. Kelly Fitzpatrick Sites

Section of Fine Arts mural entitled "Early Industry of Dale County" painted in 1938 by Kelly J. Fitzpatrick. Still hangs in the old post office building, now used as the County Board of Education. "The Ozark panel was the first of two murals painted by Wetumpka artist John Kelly Fitzpatrick, with Phenix City the second. Fitzpatrick was awarded the commission on the basis of work he had done under TRAP, an earlier Treasury program. He actually proposed several different themes, including a scene from local history depicting a famous battle between Samuel Dale and local native Americans, a decorative and allegorical...

Section of Fine Arts mural entitled "Cotton," painted for the Phenix City post office by Kelly Fitzpatrick in 1939. The mural still hangs in the old post office. "The Phenix City panel was the second of two murals by Fitzpatrick, a Wetumpka artist, with Ozark the first. Its theme is the southern cotton crop. Before it was installed in the Phenix City post office it was exhibited at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and described in the local newspaper: 'The subject of the mural is a cotton growth cycle showing the various steps from the planting of the seed to...