New Deal/WPA Art in Rhode Island


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

Apponaug

Paul Sample

"Apponaug Fishermen"

1942

oil on canvas

East Providence

Eugene Kingman

"The Hurricane," "Seeconk River," "East Providence," "The Map," and "After the Storm"

1939

oil on the wall

Providence P.O. Annex

Raymond Barger

"After the Storm," "Eagle," "Transportation," and "Distribution of the Mail"

1940

stone

Wakefield
(now in the Pettaquanscutt Historial Society)

Ernest Hamlin Baker

"Activities of the Narragansett Planters"

1940

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


Hoxsie - Lakeside Sanitarium - WPA project (from "Federal Art in New England")

Kingstown - Rhode Island State College - WPA project (from "Federal Art in New England")

Providence:
Public Library - WPA project (from "Federal Art in New England")
Providence Tuberculosis League - WPA project (from "Federal Art in New England")



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