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Bronx Post Office Mural Study WPA Horse Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Bronx Post Office Mural Study WPA Horse Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Jo Cain (1904
Category

1930s American Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Gouache, Board

WPA Post Office Mural Study Native American Scene Regionalism Social Realism
By Louise Ronnebeck
Located in New York, NY
WPA Post Office Mural Study Native American Scene Regionalism Social Realism Louise Emerson
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Cardboard, Watercolor

Monumental WPA Gloucester School Oil Mural New England Lobstermen, Hunters
Located in Exton, PA
for the Saturday Evening Post and Harpers. He did Post Office Murals for the WPA. The painting
Category

1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century
By Carlos Lopez
Located in New York, NY
Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century Carlos Lopez (1910
Category

1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

San Pedro Post Office: History of Writing Mural South, Preliminary Mural Study
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Post Office: History of Writing Mural South, Preliminary Mural Maquette right panel, 1936-7 mixed media
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

"Nature Most Natural" Important Painting by Radio City Music Hall Artist
By Eduard Buk Ulreich
Located in Philadelphia, PA
1933 "Century of Progress" Exposition in Chicago, and several post office murals for the Works Progress
Category

Vintage 1950s American Art Deco Paintings

"At the Opera" WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre American Scene
Located in New York, NY
of Chicago. Winters was an administrator with the WPA Illinois Art Project and painted post office
Category

1940s American Modern Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Columbus Avenue NYC c. 1920s/30s American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century
By Bernard Gussow
Located in New York, NY
have his paintings. Gussow even participated in the Federal Art Project, contributing a post office
Category

1920s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Louis Reynaud "Farmhouse in Landscape" - 20th Century Pastel Landscape
By Louis Raynaud
Located in New Orleans, LA
office murals in St. Louis, Missouri and Abbeville, Louisiana.
Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

The Peddler
Located in San Francisco, CA
Berkeley); Southwest Museum (LA); LA Museum of Science & Industry; Burley (ID) Post Office (mural); Idaho
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Peddler
The Peddler
H 20 in W 38.25 in D 2.35 in
The Family Gathering, Beer Belongs Advertisment
By Spencer Douglass Crockwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
national advertisers. During the ‘thirties, he also completed Post Office murals in Vermont, New York
Category

20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Gift Giving
By Spencer Douglass Crockwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
. During the ‘thirties, he also completed Post Office murals in Vermont, New York State and Mississippi
Category

20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Father and Son, Women's Day Magazine Cover, January 1945
By Spencer Douglass Crockwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
advertisers. During the ‘thirties, he also completed Post Office murals in Vermont, New York State and
Category

1940s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Three Young Boys
By Spencer Douglass Crockwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
national advertisers. During the ‘thirties, he also completed Post Office murals in Vermont, New York
Category

20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Seaside
By Gordon Grant
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
House (Washington DC); Kennebunkport (ME) Post Office (mural).
Category

1940s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Seaside
Seaside
H 15 in W 22 in D 2 in
Portrait of a Rabbi
By Boris Deutsch
Located in Surfside, FL
. 1939. Post office murals for the treasury dept.And downtown main post office major murals 1941-1944
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel, Mixed Media, Tempera, Watercolor

Lithuanian Artist Colored Lithograph Mother And Son - Boris Deutsch
By Boris Deutsch
Located in Surfside, FL
. 1939. Post office murals for the treasury dept.And downtown main post office major murals 1941-1944
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Lithuanian Artist Colored Lithograph Mother And Son - Boris Deutsch
By Boris Deutsch
Located in Surfside, FL
. 1939. Post office murals for the treasury dept.And downtown main post office major murals 1941-1944
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Lithuanian Artist Colored Lithograph Mother And Son - Boris Deutsch
By Boris Deutsch
Located in Surfside, FL
. 1939. Post office murals for the treasury dept.And downtown main post office major murals 1941-1944
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Shtetl Village Doodka Player Judaica Jewish California Modernist Artist Etching
By Boris Deutsch
Located in Surfside, FL
. 1939. Post office murals for the treasury dept.And downtown main post office major murals 1941-1944
Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Mixed Media, Watercolor

"Untitled (Girl Reading), " Wood Engraving by Stella Emma Harlos
Located in Milwaukee, WI
organize the first art rental gallery in the country. She painted a WPA post office mural, Land of Wood and
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Abstract Houses and Faces Ink Drawing and Watercolor Painting Shtetl Judaica
By Boris Deutsch
Located in Surfside, FL
art gallery annual exhibition guest of honor 1937. Exhibition at u.S.C. 1939. Post office murals for
Category

20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

“The Lobstermen”
By Gordon Grant
Located in Southampton, NY
of Art; Library of Congress; White House (Washington DC); Kennebunkport (ME) Post Office (mural).
Category

1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache, Watercolor, Archival Paper

"NEW MEXICO LANDSCAPE" RURAL SCENE
By Peter Hurd
Located in San Antonio, TX
a mural painter, completing post-office murals in Big Springs and Dallas, Texas, and in Alamogordo
Category

1950s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

"Meditation, " Figure & Farm Tool Linoleum Cut signed by Schomer Lichtner
By Schomer Lichtner
Located in Milwaukee, WI
producing Post Office murals under the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts (SFA). According to James
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Linocut

Judaica Pastel Portrait Rabbi Painting WPA Era Artist, Social Realist
By Bernard Gussow
Located in Surfside, FL
, contributing a post office mural (Recreation Hours) in East Rochester, NY. He was especially known for his
Category

1940s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Pastel

Untitled (Country Landscape with Figures)
Located in Chicago, IL
, 1930. Griffen completed two WPA post office murals, “The Good News and Bad”, Flora, IL, 1937 and
Category

1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

One of Their Pets (Two Farm Boys and Cow at the Watering Hole)
By Joseph Vorst
Located in Missouri, MO
the Paris, Arkansas Post Office (Rural Arkansas). One further post office mural came in 1942 - Time
Category

Early 20th Century American Realist Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

'Mural Study: Lower Manhattan' — WPA Era Precisionism
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
oil paintings for the Post Office at 33rd Street in Manhattan. The featured work above, 'Mural study
Category

1930s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Darkness (portrait of a young woman)
By Fletcher Martin
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
for a Post Office mural in Kellogg, Idaho that citizens found objectionable because it depicted a
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Bathers 1940s Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern Ashcan
Located in New York, NY
. The Study for Band Concert indicates the mural's eventual placement. Most small town post office
Category

1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

1947 Expressionist Oil Painting Flute Player Musician Boris Deutsch WPA Artist
By Boris Deutsch
Located in Surfside, FL
. Oakland art gallery annual exhibition guest of honor 1937. Exhibition at U.S.C. 1939. Post office murals
Category

1920s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Autumn in Lexington, " Color-Drenched Drawing for "Four Seasons" Mural
By Aiden Lassell Ripley
Located in Philadelphia, PA
for the post office in Lexington, Massachusetts, and another for the Winchester public library. This
Category

Vintage 1950s American Art Deco Drawings

Materials

Watercolor

"The Return of Timothy Pickering, " WPA Mural Study Painting, 1939
Located in Philadelphia, PA
preparation for his lobby painting at the US Post Office in Danvers, Massachusetts. Until it became
Category

Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

Materials

Gouache

"Mail by Stagecoach, Lynn to Lowell", WPA Mural Study by Aiden Ripley
By Aiden Lassell Ripley
Located in Philadelphia, PA
several depicting the life of Paul Revere for the post office in Lexington, Massachusetts, and another for
Category

Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

Materials

Paint

"Battle of the Gods, " Mural Preparatory Drawing by Dunbar Beck, Art Deco
Located in Philadelphia, PA
his mural at the post office in Danvers, Massachusetts, and a set of murals for the 1939-1940 New York
Category

Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Drawings

Materials

Paper

Over and Above Surprise (Serpent), 1960s snake painting, Cleveland School
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
, he painted a post office mural in Ravenna, Ohio, as well as one for the post office in his hometown
Category

1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Casein

Surrealist Still Life with Apples, Mid 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
to paint two murals in Cleveland’s Public Auditorium. In 1936, he painted a post office mural in
Category

1940s American Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Night Garden, mid-century figural surrealist acrylic painting, Cleveland School
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
, he painted a post office mural in Ravenna, Ohio, as well as one for the post office in his hometown
Category

1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Ovoid, geometrical figural surrealist acrylic painting, Cleveland School artist
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
, he painted a post office mural in Ravenna, Ohio, as well as one for the post office in his hometown
Category

1990s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Mandala No. 15, Abstract Ovoid Geometrical Mid-Century Painting Cleveland School
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
to paint two murals in Cleveland’s Public Auditorium. In 1936, he painted a post office mural in
Category

1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Cicada, Mid-century Figural Surrealist Cleveland School Painting, 1960s
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
to paint two murals in Cleveland’s Public Auditorium. In 1936, he painted a post office mural in
Category

1960s American Modern Animal Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

"Children of the Crucible", Striking Art Deco Mural by Beck, T. Roosevelt quote
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Timothy Pickering," a mural for the lobby painting of the US Post Office in Danvers, Massachusetts, as
Category

Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

Materials

Paint

"Farmer, " Portrait Linoleum Cut signed by Schomer Lichtner
By Schomer Lichtner
Located in Milwaukee, WI
, Wisconsin post office. Even during the Great Depression they worked producing Post Office murals under the
Category

1920s American Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

"Rest, " Farmer leaning on Work Tool Linoleum Cut signed by Schomer Lichtner
By Schomer Lichtner
Located in Milwaukee, WI
, Wisconsin post office. Even during the Great Depression they worked producing Post Office murals under the
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Linocut

Medieval Heads, mid-century figural surrealist acrylic painting
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
murals in Cleveland’s Public Auditorium. In 1936, he painted a post office mural in Ravenna, Ohio, as
Category

1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Orpheus Over the Globe, " Important Mural Study for 1939-1940 NY World's Fair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
painted for the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair. Beck also painted a WPA mural for the Post Office in
Category

Vintage 1930s American Paintings

Materials

Paper

Over and Above: No. 6, Surreal Cat w/ Fish Bones, 20th Century Cleveland School
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
, he painted a post office mural in Ravenna, Ohio, as well as one for the post office in his hometown
Category

1960s American Modern Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Study for Ladders" Juanita Guccione, Abstract Surrealism, Female Artist
Located in New York, NY
Dominick J. Guccione in the mid-1940s. Guccione worked on Post Office murals for the WPA Federal Works
Category

1940s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Volcano and Arch, Taormina, Sicily, Italy, Mid Century Cleveland School Artist
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
, he painted a post office mural in Ravenna, Ohio, as well as one for the post office in his hometown
Category

1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Australia Original Vintage Propaganda Poster post WW2 MacDonald Max Gill
By "Leslie MacDonald ""Max"" Gill"
Located in London, GB
) His Majesty’s Stationary Office, SO Code NO. 70-538-5-2 Lithographic poster 51 x 76cm (20 x 30 inches
Category

1940s Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Ruins of Central City, Vintage 1935 Framed Colorado Modernist Landscape
By Vance Kirkland
Located in Denver, CO
two post office murals, Cattle Roundup (1938, Eureka, Kansas), and Land Rush (1940, Sayre, Oklahoma
Category

1930s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Ed Sketching at Red Rocks, Vintage 1940s Original Mountain Landscape, Colorado
By Vance Kirkland
Located in Denver, CO
commissioned from him two post office murals, Cattle Roundup (1938, Eureka, Kansas), and Land Rush (1940, Sayre
Category

1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Home, African Village Scene Orange Sky, African American Artist
Located in Miami, FL
the age of 22, Smith was working in a post office where he grew to be friends with fellow artist Tom
Category

1970s Post-War Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache

“Abstract in Black and Yellow”
By Lloyd Raymond Ney
Located in Southampton, NY
commissioned to paint a mural for the New London, Ohio, post office. The documentation of the controversy over
Category

1960s Post-Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

“Abstract Face”
By Lloyd Raymond Ney
Located in Southampton, NY
early 1940s, Lloyd Ney was commissioned to paint a mural for the New London, Ohio, post office. The
Category

1960s Post-Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper, Gouache

“Abstract in Blue, Black and Green”
By Lloyd Raymond Ney
Located in Southampton, NY
early 1940s, Lloyd Ney was commissioned to paint a mural for the New London, Ohio, post office. The
Category

1960s Post-Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper, Ink, Gouache

“Untitled Abstract”
By Lloyd Raymond Ney
Located in Southampton, NY
early 1940s, Lloyd Ney was commissioned to paint a mural for the New London, Ohio, post office. The
Category

1960s Post-Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite, Gouache

Traya Wall Lamp by Studio Indigene
Located in Geneve, CH
& Brass. Colors Brown, Natural Wooden Finish. Traya, a 3-piece wall mural with lights, is a fluid
Category

2010s Indian Post-Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

Materials

Brass

Traya Wall Lamp by Studio Indigene
Traya Wall Lamp by Studio Indigene
H 3.01 in W 12.01 in D 12.01 in
Hand Tufted Psychedelic Pink, Red, and Orange Abstract Swirl Area Rug
By Fem World
Located in Oaklyn, NJ
One-of-a-kind hand tufted area rug. I was inspired by 70s psychedelic art and the post modern
Category

2010s American Post-Modern Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic

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