New Deal/WPA Art in South Dakota


Post Office New Deal Artwork

Most of the Post Office works of art were funded through commissions under the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture (later known as The Section of Fine Arts) and not the WPA.

Unless indicated, works of art are located in the US Post Office building.

Location

Artist

Title

Date

Medium

Aberdeen
Post Office and Courthouse

Laci de Gerenday

"The Building of Grand Crossing"

1940

walnut relief

Beresford

David McCosh

"Spirit of Beresford"

1942

oil on canvas

Flandreau

Matthew E. Ziegler

"Wheat in the Shock"

1940

oil on canvas

Mobridge

Elof Wedin

"Return from the Fields"

1938

oil on canvas

Spearfish

Marion Overby

"Fish Story"

1943

three wood reliefs

Sturgis

J. K. Ralston

"The Fate of a Mail Carrier - Charlie Nolin - 1876"

1939

oil on canvas

Webster

Irvin Shope

"The First White Man in South Dakota"

1939

oil on canvas

All mural images depicted on this site are used with permission
of the United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.

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


Apparently the dome mural in the Oscar Howe Art Center at 119 W Third Ave, Mitchell SD 57301 was funded by the WPA. It was completed in 1940 by Oscar Howe, a Sioux artist, and is still open to the public.

Oscar Howe page - St. Joseph's Indian School

Oscar-Howe Murals Located in the City Auditorium (Scherr-Howe Arena) on Main Street, Mobridge , SD 57601


WPA Pottery Project at The Pine Ridge Indian reservation, South Dakota:
from a talk published by Peter Flaherty, the Wisconsin Pottery Association:


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