Post Office Mural - Lewistown IL

City:: Lewistown, IL
Site Type:: Art Works, Murals
New Deal Agencies:: Arts Programs, Federal & Military Operations, Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA), Treasury Department
Artist:: Ida Abelman

Description

The tempera mural “Lewistown Milestones” was painted by Ida Abelman and installed in the Lewistown, Illinois post office in 1941.

The New Deal Art Registry notes that the mural “can be seen 24-7 through a glass window.”

Source notes

https://www.newdealartregistry.org/rendersites/Lewistown/IL/ https://www.wpamurals.org/sld021.htm National Archives Record Group 121-GA: Records of the Public Building Service Prints – Photographs of Paintings and Sculptures Commissioned by the Sect. of Fine Arts, 1934-1943 Box 1: Ida Abelman, Lewistown, IL folder.

Site originally submitted by New Deal Art Registry; edited and posted by Evan Kalish on July 22, 2014.