- City:
- Brownsville, PA
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Murals
- New Deal Agencies:
- Arts Programs, Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA)
- Artist:
- Richard Lahey
Description
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.
Source notes
Park and Markowitz, Democratic Vistas, Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal, 1984.Site originally submitted by Charles Swaney on January 25, 2013.
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