New Deal/WPA Art in Beresford, South Dakota


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

Beresford, SD Post Office
"Spirit of Beresford" - oil on canvas
David McCosh (1942)

Images courtesy of the USPS

Photographs taken and contributed by Wendy Lawrenson

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


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