Torrington High School Murals – Torrington WY

City:
Torrington, WY

Site Type:
Art Works, Murals

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Artist:
Ernest Stevens

Description

“Wyoming schools also benefited from the WPA Federal Art Project [WPA/FAP], which was responsible for a number of murals painted inside the buildings. Although the list of school murals is incomplete, it includes four panels in the Torrington High School auditorium executed by Ernest Stevens of Van Tassell …”

“The Torrington panels were removed from the old high school when it was sold by the district and were cleaned, restored and installed in the new high school building around 2005.”

Source notes

"Places of Learning: Historical Context of Schools in Wyoming," prepared for the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office Planning and Historic Context Development Program, Wyoming State Parks & Cultural Resources. https://wyoshpo.state.wy.us/pdf/WyomingSchoolsContext.pdf (pg. 122 and notes)

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on June 9, 2017.

Location Info


2400 W C St.
Torrington, WY 82240

Location notes: Present high school

Coordinates: 42.068227, -104.189619

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One comment on “Torrington High School Murals – Torrington WY

  1. I was class of ’87 (moved to Torrington in ’85). Class of ’86 was the first class to go to the ‘new’ high school freshman through senior year, so the ‘new’ high school would have opened fall of ’82. The murals were already cleaned and installed in the student commons by the time I started attending in ’85, not 2005.

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  1. I was class of ’87 (moved to Torrington in ’85). Class of ’86 was the first class to go to the ‘new’ high school freshman through senior year, so the ‘new’ high school would have opened fall of ’82. The murals were already cleaned and installed in the student commons by the time I started attending in ’85, not 2005.

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