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 |
|
|
Louis Raynaud |
"The Harvest" |
1939 |
mural |
|
Arabi |
Alice Flint |
"Louisiana Pageant" |
1939 |
mural |
|
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 |
|
|
Laura B. Lewis |
"Louisiana Farm" |
1941 |
mural |
|
|
Stuart R. Purser |
"Southern Pattern" |
1941 |
mural |
|
|
Stuart R. Purser |
"Steamboats on the Mississippi" |
1939 |
mural |
|
Hammond |
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, |
Karl Lang |
"Flood Control" |
1942 |
limestone relief |
|
New Orleans, |
Gifford Proctor |
"American Eagles" |
1941 |
sculpture |
|
New Orleans, |
Armin A. Scheler |
"Harvesting Sugar Cane" |
1941 |
limestone relief |
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
"The River" |
1938 |
mural |
|
Ville Platte, |
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
© 2005 Nancy Lorance
All Rights Reserved.