Post Office Mural - Powell WY The historic Powell post office houses an example of New Deal artwork: the mural entitled "Powell's Agriculture Resulting from the Shoshone Irrigation Project," painted by Verona Burkhard in 1938.
Annals of Wyoming:
The mural in the Powell post office was completed in December, 1938, the work of a professional artist who had done similar work for post offices in Montana and North Carolina, and who had shown her work in various art exhibitions. Verona Burkhard received the Powell commission on the basis of designs she had submitted in the Dallas, Texas, post office competition. Trained in the east and from a family...