Post Office Mural - Union MO This Treasury Section of Fine Arts mural by James Penney entitled "Aspects of Rural Missouri" was painted for the old Union MO post office building in 1941. The mural was recently restored and moved to this new post office building.
This is a typical mural scene from rural Missouri showing a farmer tending to his mules(probably Missouri Mules), a disc in the foreground, cattle and a large haystack in the center and a hunter on the right.
James Penney was born in St. Joseph, MO and studied art at the University of Kansas, then studied at the Art Students League in New...