New Deal/WPA Art in Missouri


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

Bethany

Joseph P. Vorst

"Time Out"

1942

oil on canvas

Canton

Jessie Hull Mayer

"Winter Landscape"

1940

mural

Cassville

Edward Winter

"Flora & Fauna of the Region"

1941

porcelain enamel murals

Charleston

Joe Jones

"Harvest"

1939

oil on canvas

Clinton

H. Louis Freund

"Wheat Farming & Chicken
Hatcheries"

1936

mural
(funded by TRAP)
missing

Clinton

Richard Haines

"Coon Hunt"

1942

oil on canvas

Columbia

Edward Buk Ulreich

"Pony Express" & "Stage Coach"

1937

oil on canvas (removed)

Dexter

Joe Jones

"Husking Corn"

1941

oil on canvas

Eldon

Frederick Shane

"Picnic, Lake of the Ozarks"

1941

mural

Fredericktown

James B. Turnbull

"The Lead Belt"

1939

oil on canvas

Higginsville

Jac T. Bowen

"Industrial Activity of the City"

1942

tempera

Jackson

James B. Turnbull

"Loading Cattle"

1940

oil on canvas


Jefferson City
Capitol Building
(funded by Missouri Legislature)

Thomas Hart Benton

History of Missouri

1936

egg tempera
on canvas

La Plata

Emma Lou Davis

"Missouri Livestock"

1939

wood relief

Lee's Summit

Ted Gilien

"Pastoral"

1940

oil on canvas (moved to Mayor's office)

Maplewood

Carl C. Mose

"Family Group"

1942

wood relief

Marceline

Joseph Meert

"Contemporary Life in Missouri"

1938

tempera

Monett

James McCreery

"Products of Missouri"

1939

oil on canvas

Mount Vernon

Joseph Meert

"Spring Pastoral"

1940

oil on canvas

Palmyra

James Penney

"Memories of Marion County"

1942

oil on canvas

Paris

Fred G. Carpenter

"The Clemens Family Arrives in Monroe County"

1940

oil on canvas

Pleasant Hill

Tom Lea


"Back Home:  
April 1865"

1939

oil on canvas

Saint Genevieve

Martyl Schweig

"La Gui-Annee"

1942

oil on canvas

Saint Joseph

Gustaf Dalstrom

"History of the Region - 12 panels"

1941

mural

Saint Louis

Edward Millman

cycle on history of region

1942

mural

Saint Louis

Mitchell Siporin

cycle on history of region

1942

fresco

Saint Louis, Clayton Branch

Dan Rhodes

"The Wheelwright"

1942

mural (moved to Des Moines, IA)

Saint Louis, University City Branch

Trew Hocker

"The Louisiana Purchase Exposition"

1940

fresco

Saint Louis, Wellston Public School

Lumen Martin Winter

"Old Levee and Market at St. Louis"

1939

oil on canvas

Sullivan

Lawrence Adams

"Saturday Afternoon on Main Street"

1942

oil on canvas

Union

James Penney

"Aspects of Rural Missouri"

1941

fresco

Vandalia

Joseph P. Vorst

"Corn Harvest"

1939

oil on canvas

Windsor

H. Louis Freund

"Agriculture & Varied Industries"

1938

mural

All mural images depicted on this site are used with permission
of the United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.

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


View the Jefferson City Capitol murals done by Thomas Hart Benton!

St. Louis, MO - WPA Sculptures
"Courage, Vision, Sacrifice, Loyalty" (1939) by Walker Hancock (born: St. Louis, Missouri; 1901), Medium: Limestone, Dimensions: 13' H, 7' W, 5' D (approx. each), Location: Memorial Plaza (Market and 13th Street)

"Law and Order" (west), "Equal Justice" (east) (1935) by Benjamin Hawkins (born: St. Louis, Missouri; 1896), Medium: Indiana limestone, Dimensions: 18' H, 7'7" W, Location: Customs House (Tucker and Market)


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