New Deal/WPA Art In Maryland


Post Office New Deal Artwork

Most of the Post Office works of art were funded through commissions under the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture (later known as The Section of Fine Arts) and not the WPA.

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

Location

Artist

Title

Date

Medium

Aberdeen

Henri Brenner

"Communication"

1938

plaster relief (missing)

Baltimore,
Catonsville Branch

Avery Johnson

"Incidents in the History of Catonsville"

1942

oil on canvas (several panels - some missing)

Baltimore,
Dundalk Branch

Harrison Gibbs

"Welding"

1942

wood relief

Bel Air

William H. Calfee

"First Performance of Edwin Booth"

1938

oil on canvas

Bethesda

Robert F. Gates

"Montgomery County Farm Women's Market"

1939

mural

Elkton

Alexander B. Clayton

"Arrival of the Post, 1780"

oil on canvas (in storage)

Ellicott City

Peter DeAnna

"Building of Ellicott Mills" and "Landscape of Ellicott City"

1942

oil on canvas

Hagerstown

Frank Long

"Transportation of the Mail"

1938

mural (3 panels)

Hyattsville

Eugene Kingman

"Hyattsville Countryside"

1938

mural

Laurel

Mitchell Jamieson

"Mail Coach at Laurel"

1939

mural

Oakland

Robert F. Gates

"Buckwheat Harvest"

1942

tempera

Pocomoke

Perna Krick

"Power of Communication"

1939

wood relief

Rockville

Judson Smith

"Sugarloaf Mountain"

1940

mural

Salisbury

Jacob Getlar Smith

"Cotton Patch," "Stage at Byrd's Inn," and "Salisbury"

1939

oil on canvas

Silver Spring

Nicolai Cikovsky

"The Old Tavern"

1937

oil on canvas

Towson

Nicolai Cikovsky

"History of Transportation"

1939

tempera (5 panels)

Upper Marlboro

Mitchell Jamieson

"Tobacco Cutters"

1938

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


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