Post Office Mural - Mount Vernon MO The post office contains a Section of Fine Arts mural entitled "Spring Pastoral" painted by Joseph Meert in 1940.
A beautiful spring day outside Mount Vernon with farmers working in a strawberry field, the dairy cows to the left, barn in background and a tractor plowing on the right. In the far background, there is a town, Mount Vernon being the home of a large TB sanitarium. The scene is idyllic and is similar in this regard to other murals from the state.
Joseph Meert was born in Brussels, Belgium and immigrated to Kansas City in 1910. He trained at the Kansas...