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United States post office murals are notable examples of New Deal art produced during the years 1934–1943. They were commissioned through a competitive process by the United States Department of the Treasury. Some 1,400 murals were created for federal post office buildings in more than 1,300 U.S. cities. Murals still extant are the subject of ...
This is a list of United States post office murals, produced in the United States from 1934 to 1943 through commissions from the Procurement Division of the United States Department of the Treasury. The principal objective of the United States post office murals was to secure artwork that met high artistic standards [ 1 ] for public buildings ...
muralist. 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 ...
"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 ...
00001174 [1] Added to NRHP. September 29, 2000. The Hipolito F. Garcia Federal Building and United States Courthouse is a historic courthouse, federal office, and post office building located in Downtown San Antonio in Bexar County in the U.S. state of Texas. It was formerly the U.S. Post Office, Federal Office Building and Courthouse.
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.
Lockwood wrote that the mural in the Hamilton post office, Texas Rangers Singing in Camp, was “the most popular one I have done.” [6] The murals in Colorado Springs, on theme of “classic American theater,” [7] will be removed sometime during or after 2022, “due to racist imagery and damage accumulated from their location in a food ...
McLeary also painted murals in, among other places, his adopted home of Pittsburgh; at the Somerset County, Pennsylvania library; and as far away as New York City (at the Madison Square Post Office). Several large murals by McLeary from 1935 survive in good shape in the US Post Office-South Norwalk Main, but were hidden from public view in 1986 ...