Post Office Relief – West Springfield MA

City:
West Springfield, MA

Site Type:
Art Works, Sculpture and Bas Relief

New Deal Agencies:
Arts Programs, Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA)

Artist:
Walker Hancock

Description

The post office contains a 1938 Section of Fine Arts plaster relief by Walker Hancock entitled “New England Post Rider.”

Hancock also created work for the Ariel Rios Bldg, Washington, DC and Soldier’s Memorial, St. Louis, MO.

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 28, 2013.

Location Info

74 Elm St.
West Springfield, MA 01089

Coordinates: 42.106122, -72.62171

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