"Palomino Ponies"
New Deal Agencies: Treasury Section of Fine Arts
Artists: Maynard Dixon
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Description
The large oil-on-canvas mural “Palomino Ponies—1840” by Maynard Dixon depicts several galloping horses and a rider:
“The mural, Palomino Ponies, inside was painted in 1942 by Maynard Dixon, one of the most well known painters of the American West. At age sixty-six this would be his last public mural project.”
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"Palomino Ponies" Detail
Source notes
New Deal Art During the Great Depression website. http://www.wpamurals.com/californ.html See photos at: http://www.grconnect.com/murals/html/n2282494.html
A wonderful American western mural in a lovely old building. May many more wonderful American murals grace the walls of Post Offices and other often visited buildings.