New Deal/WPA Art in Louisiana


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.

Location

Artist

Title

Date

Medium

Abbeville

Louis Raynaud

"The Harvest"

1939

mural

Arabi
(see note below)

Alice Flint

"Louisiana Pageant"

1939

mural
(destroyed)*

Arcadia

Allison B. Curry

rural landscape

1942

mural

Bunkie

Caroline S. Rohland

"Cotton Pickers"

1939

mural

Covington

Xavier Gonzalez

"Tung Oil Industry"

1939

mural

De Ridder

Conrad A. Albrizzio

"Rural Free Delivery"

1936

fresco

Eunice

Laura B. Lewis

"Louisiana Farm"

1941

mural

Ferriday

Stuart R. Purser

"Southern Pattern"

1941

mural

Gretna

Stuart R. Purser

"Steamboats on the Mississippi"

1939

mural

Hammond
(now on campus
of Southeastern University)

Xavier Gonzalez

"Strawberry Farming"

1937

oil on canvas (funded by TRAP)

Haynesville

Joseph Pistey, Jr.

"Agriculture and Industry of Clairborne County"

1939

mural

Jeanerette

Hollis Holbrook

"Sugar Cane Mill"

1941

mural

Lake Providence

Ethel Edwards

"Life on The Lake"

1942

mural

Leesville

Duncan Ferguson

"The Letter"

1939

terra-cotta relief

Many

Julius Struppeck

"Cotton Pickers"

1941

sculpture

New Orleans,
Federal Office Building

Karl Lang

"Flood Control"

1942

limestone relief

New Orleans,
Federal Office Building

Gifford Proctor

"American Eagles"

1941

sculpture

New Orleans,
Federal Office Building

Armin A. Scheler

"Harvesting Sugar Cane"

1941

limestone relief

Oakdale

Harry Lane

"Air Express"

1939

mural

Rayville

Elsie Driggs

"La Salle's Quest for the Mississippi"

1939

mural

Saint Martinsville

Minetta Good

"Evangeline"

1940

mural

Tallulah

Francisca Negueloua

"The River"

1938

mural

Ville Platte,
Post Office and Agriculture Building

Paul Rohland

"Louisiana Bayou"

1939

mural

Vivian

John Tatschl

"Trade and Learning," "Rural Mail," and "Harvest"

1941

walnut reliefs

Winnsboro

Datus Ensign Myers

"Logging in Louisiana Swamps"

1939

mural

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

The Arabi Post Office mural was destroyed in 1966 when the building was renovated. The Post Office itself was under 7 feet of water from Hurricane Katrina and it has been decided to not reopen the Depression Era building.*

*information courtesy of Jimmy Emerson


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