Completion Year: 1940

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, Allan Capron Houser and other Indian artists were invited by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts to study mural painting with Olle Nordmark and then paint murals in the Interior building.  Houser was from the Fort Sill Apache Tribe in Oklahoma. In the South Penthouse on the 8th floor (the former Employees' Break Room), Houser painted three large murals on "Apache Scenes" in 1940: "Singing Love Songs,"...

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...

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.  David McCosh painted two murals for  the National Park Service, both created in 1940 with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, entitled, “Themes of the National Parks.”  One is dominated by a vista of Yosemite with smaller scenes of Carlsbad Caverns, Devils Tower, Crater Lake, and Yellowstone. The other features Bryce Canyon with smaller scenes of Olympic, Sequoia, Mesa Verde, Death Valley, and Rainbow Bridge. They can be found...

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, Gerald Nailor, a Navajo, and other Indian artists were invited by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts to Washington to study with Olaf Normandy and then paint murals in the Interior building.   In the South Penthouse (8th floor), Nailor painted three large murals called "Navajo Scenes" in 1940: "Preparing Yarn For Weaving" (West Wall), "The Hunting Ground" (South Wall on both side of entry door)...

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, several Indian artists were invited by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts to study with Olle Nordmark and then paint murals in the Interior building. In 1940, Velino Herrera from the Zia Pueblo in New Mexico painted a set of murals called "Pueblo Life" in what is now the South Penthouse on the 8th floor (formerly the Employees' Break Room). On the East Wall are "Buffalo...

This 1940 oil-on-canvas mural, "Wheat in the Shock," by Matthew Ziegler, was created for the then-new Flandreau post office. The artwork was a winner of the Treasury Section's 48-State Post Office Mural Competition.

The historic Rockford post office houses an example of New Deal artwork: Pierre Bourdelle's 1940 mural, "Along the Furrows," commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.

The historic Smithville post office houses an example of New Deal artwork: "The Law—Texas Rangers" (1940), an oil-on-canvas mural by Minette Teichmueller. The work was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.

The historic Shelton, Connecticut post office houses a federal Treasury Section of Fine Arts-funded mural entitled "River Landscape." The work was painted by Frede Vidar and installed in the post office lobby in 1940.

The two large granite reliefs "Law" and "Justice", as well as two large stone eagles, were carved by Donald De Lue. They were commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts in 1940. They are installed around the exterior of the William Penn Annex/Robert N. C. Nix Federal Building.