• Post Office - Kingstree SC
    "Post office built in 1937. An addition was made in 1983. A New Deal mural entitled "Rice Growing" hangs in the lobby."   (flickr)
  • Post Office Mural - Kingstree SC
    The post office contains a 1939 Section of Fine Arts mural by Arnold Friedman entitled "Rice Growing." "Arnold Friedman (1874–1946) was an American Modernist painter. He was born in Corona, Queens, worked for the Federal Art Project and studied at the Art Students League of New York under the tutelage of Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller. In 1909, he took a six-month leave of absence from his job to study art in Paris. During this time, he was introduced to the styles of Impressionism and Cubism. He exhibited with many of the most avant-garde venues and dealers of the period, including...