New Deal/WPA Art in Powell, 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.


Powell, WY Post Office
"Powell's Agriculture Resulting from the Shoshone Irrigation Project"
by Verona Burkhard (1938) - oil on canvas

Photograph taken by John Cunning, 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 photograph.

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


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