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  • Post Office Mural - Bangor PA
    The historic Bangor post office houses an example of New Deal artwork: "Slate Belt People," a mural commissioned by the Section of Fine Arts. Completed in 1941, the work was created by Barbara Crawford. The work is distinctive in that it is painted on four slate panels. According to an information page on site: Commissioned in July of 1940, this mural is one of approximately one thousand murals that were installed in post offices by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts between 1934 and 1943. Unlike Great Depression programs such as WPA, these murals were not intended as relief and were often...
  • Post Office Mural - Bassett VA
    The fresco "Manufacture of Furniture" was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and installed in the historic Bassett post office in 1939. The work is still visible there today.
  • Post Office Mural - Batesville IN
    The post office contains a Section of Fine Arts mural "Building the Industrial Foundation of Batesville" painted by Orville Carroll in 1938. The size of the mural is 13'6" x 5'6" and the medium is tempera on canvas.
  • Post Office Mural - Batesville MS
    "New Deal mural entitled "Cotton Plantation" painted in 1942 by Eve Kottgen. It was moved to the current post office in 1998. Due to lack of space (or planning), there was no space in the lobby so the mural was hung on the work floor out of public view. They are happy to let folks view it however." (flickr)
  • Post Office Mural - Bay Minette AL
    Medium: oil on canvas Section of Fine Art "mural entitled "Removal of the County Seat from Daphne to Bay Minette" by Hilton Leech in 1939. It was restored and moved to the current post office building in 1987"
  • Post Office Mural - Bay St. Louis MS
    This oil-on-canvas mural entitled “Life on the Coast” was painted in 1938 by Louis Raynaud. The mural was moved to the current Post Office in 1987. The images depict the lifestyle of coastal Mississippians. The original design showed the mother in a bathing costume playing in the water next to her child. However, in the final work she stands on the shore in a more conservative dress.  
  • Post Office Mural - Beacon NY
    The post office contains multiple TRAP funded murals by Mr. Rosen that depict views and maps of the mid-Hudson region.  
  • Post Office Mural - Beaver Falls PA
    The mural "The Armistice Letter" was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and installed in the historic Beaver Falls post office in 1938. The work is still visible there today.
  • Post Office Mural - Beaver UT
    The historic post office in Beaver, Utah houses a fine example of New Deal artwork: "Life on the Plains," an oil-on-canvas mural by John W. Beauchamp. The work was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
  • Post Office Mural - Bedford IN
    This Section of Fine Arts terra-cotta relief entitled "Limestone Quarry Workers" was painted by John Fabion for the old Bedford post office in 1942. It was moved to the current post office in 1989.
  • Post Office Mural - Bel Air MD
    The Section of Fine Arts mural entitled "First Performance of Edwin Booth," painted by William Calfee, was completed for the former Bel Air post office in 1938. It now hangs in the current post office at Blum Court.
  • Post Office Mural - Belding MI
    Marvin Beerhom painted the oil-on-canvas mural "Belding Brothers and Their Silk Industry" in 1943 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is viewable in Belding's library.
  • Post Office Mural - Belleville KS
    The 0il-on-canvas mural "Kansas Stream" was painted by Birger Sandzen in 1939 with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
  • Post Office Mural - Bellevue OH
    The post office contains a 1937 Section of Fine Arts mural by Paul Meltsner entitled "Ohio." Meltsner’s “Ohio” is a brightly colored view of the industries of Ohio and the work of the people, agriculture to the left, with a powerful tractor in the center, a boat with ore and a factory to the right in the background. Note that by contrast to works by women artists, no women are included in this mural. Condition issues exist, unfortunately. Paul Meltsner was born in New York and studied at the National Academy of Design. He was a strong example of the style of social...
  • Post Office Mural - Beresford SD
    New Deal mural entitled "Spirit of Beresford" painted by David McCosh in 1942.
  • Post Office Mural - Berlin WI
    "Gathering Cranberries" painted by Raymond Redell in 1938.
  • Post Office Mural - Berryville VA
    The mural "Clark County Products, 1939," by Edwin Lewis, was completed with Treasury Section of Fine Arts funds in 1939.
  • Post Office Mural - Berwyn IL
    Section of Fine Arts mural entitled "The Picnic" painted by Richard Haines in 1942.
  • Post Office Mural - Bethany MO
    The post office contains a Treasury Section of Fine Arts mural entitled "Time Out" painted by Joseph Vorst in 1942. Mural showing a farm family taking a lunch break, with minimal shadows showing that it was noon. The regionalist theme and style are typical of Vorst who was a friend and influenced by both Joe Jones and Thomas Hart Benton. Joseph Vorst was born in Essen, Germany where he studied under Max Liebermann. He immigrated to the United States, probably to escape the Nazis and was involved in Liberal politics and condemnations of the Nazis. He was very successful, particularly 1939-1942.
  • Post Office Mural - Black River Falls WI
    Oil on canvas entitled "Lumbering--Black River Mill" painted by Frank E. Buffmire in 1939.
  • Post Office Mural - Blakely GA
    Treasury Section of Fine Arts mural entitled "The Land is Bought from the Indians" painted in 1938 by Daniel Putnam Brinley.
  • Post Office Mural - Blissfield MI
    In 1824, the village of Blissfield was established along the River Raisin in what is now the state of Michigan. At one time in history, this village was the largest shipping port for livestock on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. In 1837, the first railroad built west of the Allegheny Mountains was constructed through Blissfield and the surrounding area. This was the Erie and Kalamazoo railroad which was also the first to operate as an interstate railroad that would carry mail between states. Fast forward to the New Deal era, and Blissfield is fortunate enough to have a new...
  • Post Office Mural - Bloomfield IA
    John Sharp painted this oil on canvas mural, entitled "Autumn in Iowa," in 1940 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is viewable in the Bloomfield post office library.
  • Post Office Mural - Bluefield VA
    The mural "Coal Mining," by Richard Kenah, was completed with Treasury Section of Fine Arts funds and installed in the historic post office in Bluefield, Virginia in 1942. Kenah was a local artist who painted a variety of post office murals for the federal government, as well as portraits.
  • Post Office Mural - Bluffton OH
    The oil-on-canvas mural "Joseph DeFord and His Friends Building the First Cabin" was painted with federal Treasury Section of Fine Arts funds. The work was installed in the lobby of Bluffton's historic post office building in 1941.
  • Post Office Mural - Bolivar TN
    The post office contains a mural by Carl Nyquist, installed in 1941, "Picking Cotton." The mural is 13 feet 6 inches wide and 5 feet high. "The mural, a reflection of the long, flat cotton fields of the area, is an outstanding example of representational art, from the light brown earth color to the clothes the people are wearing...Perhaps the mural's relationship to history can best be found in the clothing of the individuals. The long cotton dresses were still worn by women in the fields during the early 1930s. This appears to be the time depicted in the mural....
  • Post Office Mural - Boone NC
    The mural "Daniel Boone on a Hunting Trip to Watauga County" was commissioned by the federal Treasury Section of Fine Arts. Painted by Alan Tompkins, it was installed in Boone, North Carolina's historic downtown post office building in 1940.
  • Post Office Mural - Boonville IN
    The Section of Fine Arts-funded mural "Boonville Beginnings" was painted by Ida Ableman and installed in the lobby of the Boonville, Indiana post office in 1941. The size of the mural is 12'7" x 5'6" and the medium is casein tempera on canvas.
  • Post Office Mural - Boonville NY
    The post office in Boonville, New York, built in 1937, is home to a mural by painted by the sisters Suzanne and Lucerne McCullough of New York City. It depicts a 19th century scene on the Black River Canal and is titled  “Black River Canal—1845.” It was paid for by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.  
  • Post Office Mural - Bordentown NJ
    The mural "Skating on Bonaparte's Pond," by Avery Johnson, was painted in 1940 with Treasury Section of Fine Arts funds.
  • Post Office Mural - Brady TX
    New Deal mural "Texas Immigrant" painted by Gordon Grant in 1939.
  • Post Office Mural - Breckenridge MN
    A Section of Fine Arts mural entitled "Arrival of the Rural Mail" was painted by Robert Allaway and installed in the lobby of the Breckenridge, Minnesota post office in 1938.
  • Post Office Mural - Bremerton WA
    The post office contains a 4' x 24' 1938 Section of Fine Arts oil-on-canvas mural by Ernest Norling entitled "Northwest Logging." The mural was restored in 1994-95. "Norling completed two Washington State Post Office murals during the New Deal period, one in Bremerton and one in Prosser. He also painted documentary images of the state's CCC camps for the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP). During an oral history interview in 1964, Norling reflected on his knowledge of the logging industry and how that helped him with the mural: "I knew pretty well the lumbering industry. I'd work when I went to high...
  • Post Office Mural - Bridgeport OH
    The lobby of the historic Bridgeport, Ohio post office houses an example of New Deal artwork: the oil-on-canvas painting ,"Ohio Harvest," was created by Richard Kenah in 1940. It was a winner of the Treasury Department's 48-State Post Office Competition.
  • Post Office Mural - Bridgeville PA
    The historic 1938 post office in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania housed an example of New Deal artwork: "Smelting," painted by Walter Alton Carnelli in 1941. The mural was destroyed in 1965, but a photo reproduction and descriptive plaque are present.
  • Post Office Mural - Bronson MI
    Arthur Getz painted this oil on canvas mural, entitled "Harvest," in 1941 with Treasury Section of Fine Arts funding. Getz was also a prolific contributor to the New Yorker, drawing over 200 covers between 1936 and his death in 1996. 
  • Post Office Mural - Bronxville NY
    The historic post office in Bronxville, New York contains a Section of Fine Arts mural painted by John Sloan in 1939 titled "The Arrival of the First Mail in Bronxville in 1846."
  • Post Office Mural - Brownsville PA
    The post office contains a 1936 Section of Fine Arts mural "Showing the People in the Early Days Transferring from Stagecoach to Boat" painted by Richard Lahey. Brownsville, PA is located on the Monongahela River in southwest Pennsylvania and this mural shows early transportation and the transfer of people from the stagecoach to steamboat. The women are dressed in their finest. Richard Lahey was born in New Jersey and studied at the Student’s Art League of New York, taught at the Minneapolis School of Art, the Student’s Art League, Goucher College, and the Corcoran in Washington, DC.
  • Post Office Mural - Buchanan MI
    The historic post office in Buchanan, Michigan houses an example of New Deal artwork: "Production," a 1941 Treasury of Fine Arts-commissioned tempera mural by Gertrude Goodrich.
  • Post Office Mural - Buhl ID
    This 5' x 12' egg tempera-on-canvas mural entitled "Snake River Ferry"was  painted by Richard Guy Walton in 1941. "Compiled from “The Buhl Herald” archives by James H. Barker The next time you’re in the Buhl post office, if you look just above the postmaster’s door you’ll see a mural. Have you ever wondered how it got there or what it characterizes? Surprisingly, the story goes back to “Black Friday”, the stock market crash of 1929, which ushered in the great depression. Newly elected President Franklin Roosevelt, attempting to counteract the downward financial spiral, promoted his “New Deal,” a vast public works program designed...
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