Post Office Mural - Pawnee City NE The historic post office in Pawnee City, Nebraska houses an example of New Deal artwork: "The Auction," an oil-on-canvas mural painted by Kenneth Evett in 1942.
"Kenneth Evett studied with Henry Varnum Poor and George Biddle. Besides "The Auction" at Pawnee City, Evett painted two others in Colorado and Kansas. He taught at Cornell from 1948 to 1979, returning to Nebraska in 1954 to paint three murals in the rotunda of the State Capitol in Lincoln.
Evett was not happy with the subject matter of the mural that he was asked to paint in Caldwell, Kansas: that of cowboys driving cattle. In...