"Ore Docks and Steel Mills"
New Deal Agencies: Treasury Section of Fine Arts
Completed: 1938
Artists: Richard Zoellner
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Description
Cleveland’s historic Pearlbrook Station post office houses one of many examples of New Deal artwork commissioned for northeast Ohio post offices by the federal Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The mural, “Ore Docks and Steel Mills,” was completed by Richard Zoellner in 1938.
Source notes
Sharon E. Dean and Karal Ann Marling, Covering History: Revisiting Federal Art in Cleveland, 1933-43. The Cleveland Public Library and the Cleveland Artists Foundation, 2006. (Quote: pp. 24-25).
http://www.wpamurals.com/ohio.htm
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 7, 2017.