New Deal/WPA Art in Kemmerer, Wyoming


Most of the post office works of art were funded under the Treasury Department's Section commissions. Those works that were created using TRAP funds are so indicated. Although the WPA funded the construction of post office buildings, the artwork was not WPA but was usually produced under the Section or TRAP programs.


Kemmerer, WY Post Office
"Cretaceous Landscape" - oil on canvas
by Eugene Kingman (1938)


Kemmerer, WY Post Office
"Tertiary Aquatic Life" - oil on canvas
by Eugene Kingman (1938)


Kemmerer, WY Post Office
"Excavation"- oil on canvas
by Eugene Kingman (1938)

Photographs taken by Kemmerer Postmaster.

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 photographs.

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


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