- City:
- Middlebury, IN
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Murals
- New Deal Agencies:
- Arts Programs, Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA)
- Artist:
- Raymond Redell
Description
The post office contains a 1939 Section of Fine Arts mural by Raymond Redell entitled “Early Middlebury Mail.”
The mural depicts early mail delivery in the form of the stagecoach speeding past a farm family waving at the coach with passengers returning their waves. There is a lot of motion in the work with the theme being quite common in PO murals.
Raymond Redell worked principally in Wisconsin with little known work otherwise.
Source notes
Park and Markowitz, Democratic Vistas, Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal, 1984.Site originally submitted by Charles Swaney on February 1, 2013.
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