- City:
- Macon, MS
- Site Type:
- Murals, Art Works
- New Deal Agencies:
- Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA), Arts Programs
- Started:
- 1941
- Completed:
- 1941
- Artist:
- Douglas Crockwell
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
S. Douglass Crockwell painted “Signing of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek” in 1944 with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
Crockwell, a commercial artist, “…departed from type and explored dark and emotive styling to depict a critical event in local history….The event…was critical to the formation of Macon as well as the larger area in Mississippi and Alabama” (Navarro).
Medium: oil on canvas
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory database, Macon. Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?id=24326&view=facts&y=959
Navarro, M. A. (n.d.) Signing of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek on September 27, 1830. Indians at the Post Office: Native Themes in New Deal Era Murals. Smithsonian Institute. Retrieved from
https://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/indiansatthepostoffice/mural22.html
https://www.wpamurals.org/mississip.htm
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on February 16, 2014.
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