Post Office Mural – Lewisburg TN

John H. R. Pickett painted this oil on canvas mural, entitled “Coming ‘Round the Mountain,” in 1938 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
John H. R. Pickett painted this oil on canvas mural, entitled “Coming ‘Round the Mountain,” in 1938 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
During the Great Depression the federal government commissioned a mural upon completion then-new post office in downtown Virginia Beach. The work by John H. R. Pickett was completed in 1939 with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, and… read more