New Deal/WPA Art in Bridgeport, Ohio

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

Bridgeport, OH Post Office
"Ohio Harvest" - oil on canvas
Richard Kenah (1940)

Image courtesy of the USPS

Photograph taken by Caroline Williams, 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 and his website, the Post Marks Collectors Club (PMCC) at www.postmarks.org/photos.

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