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Learn about the history and art of the post office murals commissioned by the Treasury Department from 1934 to 1943. Browse the murals by state and see images, artists, dates and notes.
Learn about the history and process of the New Deal art project that created 1,400 murals for federal post offices in the U.S. from 1934 to 1943. See examples of the murals and their themes, styles, and locations.
Learn about the history, culture, and regulation of murals in Los Angeles, the mural capital of the world. Explore the diverse styles, themes, and locations of thousands of murals that reflect the social and political movements of their time.
Study for Cowboy Dance (1941), Magafan's mural at the U.S. post office in Anson, Texas. Jenne Magafan (1916-1952) was an American painter and muralist. During her short-lived career, she became a successful mural painter in the 1930s and early 1940s. She gained national prominence for her work in the New Deal art program.
Millard Sheets was born June 24, 1907, and grew up in the Pomona Valley, east of Los Angeles. [2] [3] He is the son of John Sheets. [4]He attended the Chouinard Art Institute and studied with painters Frank Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle. [5]
Between 1934 and 1940, Mechau was awarded 11 mural commissions through New Deal art projects. Horses at Night was followed in 1935 by two Mechau murals that were selected for placement in the new Post Office Department Building designed to incorporate large works of art. Each of the competition winners created a pair of murals.
Minette Teichmueller (1871 – 1970) was an American muralist known for her Smithville, Texas post office mural, The Law, Texas Rangers. [1] Teichmueller was born on January 27, 1871, in La Grange, Texas. [2] She studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the San Antonio Academy of Art. [3] She was married to fellow artist Hugo Pohl (1878 ...
"Made in Montana: Montana's Post Office Murals." Montana: The Magazine of Western History 53, no. 3 (2003): 44-53. Parisi, Philip. The Texas Post Office Murals: Art for the People. College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press. 2004. Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz. Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal ...