"Palomino Ponies"
Description
The Canoga Park post office is graced by a large oil-on-canvas mural by the artist, Maynard Dixon, painted in 1942. The mural is titled “Palomino Ponies—1840” and depicts several galloping horses and a rider:
Dixon was one of the most well-known painters of the American West. He was 66 at the time he painted this mural, which would be his last public mural project.
The mural was commissioned by the Section of Fine Arts of the Federal Works Agency (which had previously been part of the Treasury Department).
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Canoga Park Post office Challenger Station Plaque
Canoga-Park-Post-OFfice-plaque
Canoga Park Post office Challenger Station Plaque
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This mural, Palomino Ponies, by Maynard Dixon in 1941, was his last public mural
Palomino Ponies, by Maynard Dixon
This mural, Palomino Ponies, by Maynard Dixon in 1941, was his last public mural
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"Palomino Ponies" Detail
Source notes
New Deal Art website.
http://www.wpamurals.com/californ.htmlSee more photos at:
http://www.grconnect.com/murals/html/n2282494.html
Project originally submitted by Living New Deal on June 15, 2009.
Additional contributions by Richard A Walker, Diane Levine.
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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.
As a child we did not have mail delivery to our new suburb for some time. So my Mother would walk with me to this Post Office often. I fell in love with this Dixon painting of the Palomino horses, and actually dreamt of them throughout my life, perhaps symbolizing my childhood. The effect of Public Art on children is a subject someone might want to study in depth.