New Deal/WPA Art in Brevard, North Carolina

This Post Office mural was funded by the Section of Fine Arts under the Treasury Department and not the WPA.


Brevard, NC Post Office
"Good News" - glazed tempera
by Pietro Lazzari (1941)

This mural is installed in the Rowell Bosse North Carolina Room
at the new Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St. Brevard, NC.

Source:
Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal
by Marlene Park & Gerald E. Markowitz

Thanks to Jimmy Emerson who contributed the photograph.

Check out the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) Photo page at: http://www.postmarks.org/photos

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