Northfield, VT New Deal Art

New Deal/WPA Art in Northfield, Vermont

These Post Office murals were funded by the Section of Fine Arts under the Treasury Department and not the WPA.

Northfield, VT Post Office
"Skiers" - oil on canvas
by Charles M. Daugherty (1939)

"Granite" ----------------- "Agriculture"

Images courtesy of the USPS

Reference 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!

Look for photographs of Post Office exteriors at the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) Post Office photo page: http://www.postmarks.org/photos