"Lewistown Milestones"
New Deal Agencies: Treasury Department (TD), Treasury Section of Fine Arts
Artists: Ida Abelman
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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.”
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"Lewistown Milestones" detail
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Lewistown, IL: Post Office Mural 'Cartoon' by Ida Abelman
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Lewistown, IL: Post Office Mural Sketch by Ida Abelman
Source notes
http://www.newdealartregistry.org/rendersites/Lewistown/IL/ http://www.wpamurals.com/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.
Project originally submitted by New Deal Art Registry; edited and posted by Evan Kalish on July 22, 2014.
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