- City:
- Danville, IN
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Murals
- New Deal Agencies:
- Arts Programs, Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Artist:
- Gail W. Martin
Description
“Filling the Water Jugs Haymaking Time” is a post office mural completed by Gail W. Martin in 1939 under the auspices of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The mural is located in what was the local post office and is now the Hendricks County Probation Court Building. The size of the mural is 11’8′ x 3’10” and the medium is oil on canvas.
Source notes
Originally posted in the New Deal Art Registry: https://www.newdealartregistry.org/ A Simple and Vital Design: The Story of the Indiana Post Office Murals by John C. CarlisleSite originally submitted by Indiana Division of Historic Preservation/Nicole Cory on July 2, 2014.
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Brian Russelburg
Gail Wycoff Martin was a (5-Year) Herron School of Art ( Indianapolis) Graduate, in 1938, who was a recipient of the Mary Milliken Scholarship, awarded to outstanding art students, to continue their art training in Europe. He was studying art in Germany and deeply concerned when Hitler was coming into power. He visibly saw the “March Militaire at the German Socialist Convention in Sept of 1937. He served time in WW2 and was an honored art professor at the University of Hartford.
(I am an artist who graduated from Herron School of Art. Currently I am writing an article for a local newspaper about this mural. Submitting this info from my own research) Herron Chronicle, Indiana University Press, 2003.)