New Deal/WPA Art in Naperville, Illinois

This Post Office mural was funded by the Section of Fine Arts under the Treasury Department and not the WPA.

Naperville, IL Post Office
"George Martin's Home Overlooking Old Naper Hill" - oil on canvas
Rainey Bennett (1941)
(moved to new Post Office Building)

Image courtesy of the USPS

Photograph taken by Julie Elbert, August 2006.

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

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