• Post Office Mural - Lake Worth FL
    The "Settler Fighting Alligator in Rowboat" mural was installed at the Lake Worth Post Office Mural. According to the Palm Beach Post: "It was painted by Tampa artist Joseph D. Myers under a different program that the Federal Works Agency’s Public Buildings Administration commissioned in 1941. Artists submitted designs anonymously to an advisory panel, comprising a University of Florida architecture teacher and two Florida mural artists. The panel selected Tampa artist Joseph D. Myers, giving him a first prize of $1,000. According to materials supplied by Myers’ family, Myers and the federal bureaucrat in charge of the program squabbled for months over the...