Woodrow Wilson Crumbo Sites

The historic post office in Nowata, Oklahoma houses New Deal artwork. The tempera mural, entitled "Rainbow Trail," was completed by Woodrow Crumbo and installed in the post office lobby in 1943, where it is still on display today.

The Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior building contains one of the largest collections of New Deal art in Washington DC, by some of the finest American artists of the time.  From 1939 to 1941, Woodrow Wilson Crumbo of the Creek-Potawatomie Tribe in Oklahoma and other Indian artists were invited to Washington to study mural painting with Olle Nordmark and then create murals in the Interior building. Crumbo painted several murals concerning Potawatomie life in inner room of the South Penthouse on the 8th floor (the former Employees' Break Room).  They are: "Buffalo Hunt", "Wild Horses", "Deer", "Courting", "Flute Player", "Peyote Bird." The Department of Interior...