- City:
- Knightstown, IN
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Murals
- New Deal Agencies:
- Arts Programs, Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA)
- Artist:
- Raymond L. Morris
Description
The post office contains a 1938 Section of Fine Arts mural by Raymond L. Morris entitled “The Evening Mail.”
The Mural portrays the evening post arriving by stage with a lot of motion,
including a working man controlling the horses of the stage coach, children running from the front of the stage, and a well-dressed man raising his cane at the side. Lighting is sub-optimal for photography.
Little is known about Raymond Morris, who was born in 1897 and painted in Indiana.
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 27, 2013.
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Hi there Charles:
I guess mail use to be a big thing.
Even in my younger days. Not quite what it was back then but when I was young and in the Marine Corps we would all get excited when the mail would come. It was with out a doubt the highlight of everyone’s day or even week if we were some place that mail didn’t come to often.
Kinda makes you think. I was just Tweeting back and forth with complete stranger discussing some photographs and we use to have to wait for days just to hear from our wives and sweethearts.
Times certainly change.
Thank you for sharing and have a happy day,
Barry