Most of the post office works of art were funded under the Treasury Department's Section commissions. Those works that were created using TRAP funds are so indicated. Although the WPA funded the construction of post office buildings, the artwork was not WPA but was usually produced under the Section or TRAP programs.

Woodland, CA Post Office "Farm Life" - tempera two panels by George Harris (1937) (funded by TRAP) Third panel, "The Trek of Father Crespi - 1777," by Katherine Works (1938) destroyed Photographs taken by Tony at the Woodland Post Office

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

Thanks to Jimmy Emerson who contributed the photographs.

Check out the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) Photo page at: http://www.postmarks.org/photos

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