Lew E. Davis Sites

This Lew E. Davis tempera mural "Early Spanish Caballeros" was painted for the Los Banos post office in 1940. According to Kathryn A. Flynn's book The New Deal: A 75th Anniversary Celebration, "One of the most fruitful competitions of the Section project took place in 1939. It goal was to select the best mural design for a post office in each of our forty-eight states. Over three thousand entries were submitted. Jurors wer Maurice Sterne, Henry Varnum Poor, Edgar Miller, and Olin Dows. Once chosen, the forty-eight selections were exhibited around the country and shown in Life magazine that December." The...

This tempera on canvas mural "Early Spanish Caballeros" was painted by Lew E. Davis with Treasury Section of Fine Arts funds. It was moved to its current location at the museum from the Los Banos Post Office.

The oil-on-canvas mural "Cattle Days" was painted in 1942 by Lew E. Davis for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The mural hangs in the lobby of the historic post office in Marlow, Oklahoma. It shows four cowboys in a corral branding cattle. One is standing with a lasso and several cows. The other three are squatting down, holding a cow which is about to be branded.