New Deal/WPA Art in Littleton, Colorado


Post Office New Deal Artwork

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

Littleton, CO Post Office
"North Platte Country against the Mountains" - mural
by John H. Fraser (1940)
(restored in 1985)

This mural now hangs in City Council Chamber,
Littleton Center, 2255 W. Berry Ave.

(Photograph from www.littletongov.org)

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


Littleton, CO
article about the Littleton Post Office mural:
http://www.littletongov.org/history/othertopics/postoffice.asp


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