New Deal WPA Art in New Hampshire


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

Derry

Vladimir Yoffe

"Town of Derry"

1938

plaster relief

Laconia
Forestry Building

Philip Guston

"Pulpwood Logging"

1941

oil on canvas

Laconia
Forestry Building

Musa McKim

"Wildlife in White Mountains"

1941

oil on canvas

Lebanon

Charles Anton Kaeselau

"Rural New Hampshire"

1939

oil on canvas

Milford

Philip von Saltza

"Lumberman Log-Rolling"

1940

oil on canvas

Peterborough

Marguerite Zorach

"New Hampshire Post in Winter"

1938

oil on canvas

Plymouth

R. Crawford Livingston

"John Balch - First Post Rider of Plymouth"

1938

fresco secco

Wolfeboro

Andrew Winter

"New Hampshire Sugar Camp"

1938

oil on canvas

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


Concord - Public Library - WPA project (from "Federal Art in New England")

Nashua - Public Library - WPA project (from "Federal Art in New England")

Portsmouth - Portsmouth Junior High School - WPA project (from "Federal Art in New England")


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