- City:
- Covina, CA
- Site Type:
- Sculpture and Bas Relief, Art Works
- New Deal Agencies:
- Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA), Arts Programs
- Completed:
- 1939
- Artist:
- Atanas Katchamakoff
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Atanas Katchamakoff created a Spanish cedar relief, “Covina Desert Orange Groves,” to frame a door in the Covina, CA, post office lobby. The project was funded by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA) and likely completed in 1939.
Note: Established in 1939, the Section of Fine Arts succeeded the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture (1934-1938) and the Treasury Section of Fine Arts (1938-1939) in overseeing artworks created to enhance public buildings, notably post offices.
Source notes
Additional photos by Jordan McAlister (accessed Mar. 30, 2023)
Site originally submitted by Shaina Potts on February 14, 2010.
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