- City:
- Safford, AZ
- Site Type:
- Art Works, Murals
- New Deal Agencies:
- Arts Programs, Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA)
- Artist:
- Seymour Fogel
Description
This post office contains six tempera murals painted in 1942 by Seymour Fogel. Fogel painted these as the winner of one of the 48-State Competition Post Office murals.
“In 1939, for example, Seymour Fogel sketched an elegant scene of Southwest Indian dancers for a post office mural in Safford, Arizona. Local Anglos harboring resentful memories of Apache raids, however, deemed Fogel’s design an “abomination,” and the artist substituted a stereotypical picture of wagon trains and pioneers.”
(muse.jhu.edu)
Source notes
"The New Deal: A 75th Anniversary Celebration." Kathryn Flynn with Richard Polese.
https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_studies/v050/50.3-4.doss.html
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Tom Green
Whoa Nellie! I’ve admired the murals at the Safford Post Office all my life. I wasn’t aware of the history about the artist having to change his subject matter and remove the Apache Indian dancers. Interesting.