User:Buster7/The List - Men Artists

Women

 * Please see User:Buster7/The List - Women Artists for a working list to create articles for Women muralists

General abbreviations

 * (AWA) = source is American Women Artists: From Early Indian Times to the Present by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, published in 1982 by G. K. Hall & Co., Boston, Mass., ISBN 978-0-8161-8535-1
 * (LND) = source is Living New Deal
 * (WPA) = source is wpa.murals.com
 * (WWWinAA) = source is B7's copy of Who Was Who in American Art ISBN 978-0-9320-8700-3
 * (AiC) = Artists in California, 1786 - 1940, Edon Milton Hughes, ISBN 0-9616112-0-0
 * Potential article information on various artists that worked on Ariel Rios Mural

The "Regionalist triumvirate"

 * John Steuart Curry
 * Thomas Hart Benton
 * Grant Wood

Frank Hartley Anderson (1891 - 1947), Fairfield, Alabama
BIO

Francis Ankrom
Tennessee Mural ? (I am betting it is Frances because I am finding virtually no sources that are more than 1 line. I suspect she married someone and we don't know her name. Look for both spellings anyway, as many people don't know that Francis is masculine. I would assume if it were a man we'd find more coverage. I find zilch in Newspapers.com. SusunW (talk) 14:02, 26 April 2016 (UTC) )
 * Canyon, Texas post office mural Strays, painted by Frances Ankrom, was sponsored by the Section of Fine Arts. The mural, which was completed and installed in 1938, went through multiple iterations of subject matter proposals and sketches before “Strays” was finalized. Project folders at the National Archives in College Park, MD show that Ankrom had sketched alternative ideas for the mural: “In Defense of the Mail,” “Rout in Palo Duro,” and “Onward Texas.” (LND/Artist)
 * From my copy of Who Was Who in American Art:Ankrom, Francis [P] San Antonio, TX. Work:USPO, Canyon, Tex. WPA artist. (40)
 * but no designation (M) or (F). Buster Seven   Talk  15:13, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I think the P stands for "painter" and is Not a middle name. Buster Seven   Talk 
 * But...when you go to it is spelled Franc es. The menu on top will lead you to a list of WPA artists. User: Buster7
 * Absolutely positively is Francis, a man. Here's a picture of him with the mural
 * p 347 Francis Stewart Ankrom was born on May 29, 1882 in Allensville, Ohio to Hannah (née Stewart) and John W. Ankrom. He studied science at Ohio Northern University and then took theological courses at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He furthered his education with science courses from Oshkosh State Normal School and law classes from the American Correspondence School of Law.
 * In 1916, as part of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry, Ankrom served on the Texas-Mexican border. After his discharge, he remained in Texas working as an architect in San Antonio.
 * He served as an army engineer between 1918 and 1919 for the Arizona District
 * and in 1919 returned to San Antonio to practice architecture.
 * , Ankrom died in Texas on 20 April 1952.

Julien Binford III
Forest Loggers in the post office at Forest, Mississippi and mural at the Saunders Postal Station in Richmond, Virginia.Added to list 5/17 per SuW

La Verne Nelson Black (1887 - 1938), Arizona post office
Born in 1887, Black was innately drawn to painting as a child and was fascinated with the Native American culture he experienced in his Kickapoo Valley, Wis., home. He made his first paints from vegetable juices, dirt, clay and a soft stone called red keel. When he was 19, his family moved to Chicago. Black enrolled at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, where he received a scholarship and studied painting, sculpture and illustration. From 1908 to 1925, he traveled West every summer to paint, returning to Chicago and New York City for illustration and commission work. After studying art and moving to the Southwest, he created predominantly classic Western images, including Native Americans and their horses, as illustrated in Along the Old Trail, painted in 1927 and selected for BNSF's 2008 Safety Plate. His small bronzes of Western wildlife were sold at Tiffany's in New York.

By 1925, ill health prompted him to move to Taos with his wife and family. There he enjoyed the collegial support of other artists and excelled at painting pueblo architecture, Sangre de Christo Mountains and Native Americans. Some years later he moved to the warmer climate of Phoenix. Befriended by Taos Society of Artists members Oscar E. Berninghaus and W. A. "Buck" Dunton, Black learned to use realistic, vibrant colors and balanced, commanding composition in his wide Western landscapes. The broad, energetic, brush work executed in blocks of color were, however, Black's own interpretation of Impressionism. With this technique, he imparted energy and liveliness to his Western figures even when they are static and still. During his Taos-Phoenix years, he completed commissions for the Santa Fe Railway, and several of his paintings were displayed in the company's largest ticket offices.



Black's professional recognition was delayed in part due to his reticent personality. In addition, Black's signature Impressionistic style was less popular at the time. But during the 1930s, Black began to receive recognition for his work. In 1937, he won a commission on a Work Projects Administration (WPA) project to paint 2 murals for the main U.S. Post Office in Phoenix, Arizona. Progress of the Pioneer, Crossing the Desert and Progress of the Pioneer, the Arrival of the U.S. Mail Coach. Black's murals portrayed Arizona's progress from pioneering days to the industrialization of the 1930s.

Black died in 1938. His work gained greater appreciation after his death, and he has since been considered a mainstay among Western painters of the early 20th century.

Ross E. Braught

 * needs to be added to the guy's list. He did Waynesboro Landscape in the Waynesboro, Mississippi, Post Office and murals for the Kansas City (Missouri or Kansas?) Civic Auditorium. Added per SuW 5/17...B7

Aldis "Birdseye" Browne II (1907 - 1981), Alabama post office
The mural is one of the hundreds of works of Art commissioned during the Depression by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts for US post offices and other Government bldgs. Brownes mural still graces the former Post office in Oneida, Alabama. The bldg is now used by the local board of education. He was born in Washington DC but is most associated with his adopted Connecticut.
 * more at

Franklin Boggs
(And just a really weird comment. My sister was born on July 25th and my brother was born on November 7th. Doodoodoodoo (twilight zone music) SusunW (talk) 01:00, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
 * William Franklin Boggs |via = Newspapers.com}} was born on July 25, 1914 in Warsaw, Indiana and attended the Fort Wayne Art School.
 * He continued his education at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
 * He completed work for the Tennessee Valley Authority as a graphic artist.
 * Boggs won two European Traveling Fellowships and at the beginning of World War II was in Europe.
 * In 1942, he and his wife, Mary completed the mural Economic Life in Newton in the Early 1940s for the post office at Newton, Mississippi.
 * During World War II, Boggs was commissioned by Abbott Laboratories to paint the history of army medicine as a war correspondent.
 * His paintings depict the work of the Army Medical Department in the South Pacific, where he was involved in the conflict on Los Negros Island of the Admiralty Islands and in New Guinea.
 * His paintings appeared in a 1945 edition of Life along with 250 paintings in an article called "Men Without Guns".
 * After the war, he earned commissions to paint in South America.
 * In 1945, he was hired as an "artist in residence" and joined the faculty of Beloit College.
 * The March 20, 1950 issue of Life also featured Boggs as one of the brightest new talents in America (I know several of the obits say Life article was in 1947 or 1948, but the two sources here seem to be correct with the date being in 1950 in light of the Metropolitan's memo.) and as a result the Metropolitan Museum of Art featured his artworks along with the other artists from the Life feature. The special 5-week exhibition showcased 52 paintings by various artists.
 * An exhibit at the Brussell's World Fair in 1958 featured nine of Bogg's paintings created for the Albert Trostel and Sons centennial celebration of the tanning industry in Wisconsin. The following academic term, he was in Finland on a Fulbright Fellowship.
 * He and Mary divorced in 1958 |via = Newspapers.com}} and he later married Sondra.
 * In 1963, Boggs won an award from the American Institute of Architects for his design and completion of a pre-cast concrete sculpture.
 * He has completed murals on display in eight states and Finland. (Where would those be? Aha! My guess is they are he ones listed at the left on the PBS blurb--they missed the post office entirely--see )
 * Boggs left Beloit College in 1977.
 * In 1998, he was one of the war artists featured in the PBS documentary "They Drew Fire".
 * Boggs died on November 7, 2009

Paul Cadmus,(1904-1999)
Paul Cadmus was born December 17, 1904 in New York City. His father was a commercial lithographer, and his mother illustrated books. At the age of 15, Cadmus left high school and began his art studies at the National Academy of Design (NAD). He studied with Joseph Pennell and William Auerbach-Levy at the NAD. In 1926, Cadmus found employment as a layout artist in a New York advertising agency. In 1931, the artist left his employment as a commercial artist to travel to Europe with his friend, Jared French. Upon his return the United States in 1933, Cadmus joined the Public Works of Art Program. His 1934 picture The Fleet’s In! generated considerable notoriety in the ranks of the U.S. Navy. The controversial subject matter helped establish Cadmus’s reputation as a social satirist. Although he had been commissioned by Life magazine to depict a significant event in American History after 1925, the magazine later refused to publish Cadmus’s painting Herrin Massacre due to its graphic portrayal of murdered strikebreakers. The egg tempera painting was characteristic of Cadmus’s sharply focused, meticulously rendered, realist approach. Besides painting, Cadmus is also well-known as a printmaker and as a superb draftsman. His paintings have been included in many important exhibitions- most notably the American Realists and magic realists exhibition held in 1943 at The Museum of Modern Art.Cadmus left Manhattan in 1961, relocating his studio to Weston, Connecticut where he died in 1999. Works by Cadmus can be found in major public collections including those of the Whitney Museum of American Art; National Museum of American Art; Smithsonian Institution; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 * Born December 17, 1904. Studied: Joseph Pennell; William Auerbach-Levy; Charles Locke; Jared French; NAD; ASL. Member: SAE; American Society PS & G; American Art Congress; Philadelphia SE. Exhibited: WMAA, 1934, 1936-38, 1940, 1941, 1945; BM, 1935; AIC, 1935, 1945 (prize); London, 1938; SAE, 1938, GGE, 1939; PAFA, 1941; Carnegie Institute, 1944, 1945; MOMA, 1942, 1943, 1944. Work: MOMA; Sweet Briar College; American Embassy, Ottawa, Canada; Encyclopedia Britannica College; WMAA; AGAA; Cranbrook Academy of Art; MMA; LOC; AIC; BMA; NYPL; SAM; Milwaukee AI; mural, Parcel Post Building, Richmond, VA (1947). (source: Who Was Who in American Art) (biography and obituary).(“The Fleet’s In” Currently displayed at the Department of the Navy, Naval Historical Center. This WPA painting created quite a controversy when it was first presented. Some people apparently thought that it portrayed the Navy in a negative light – carousing with “loose women” and obviously having a wild time while on shore leave.) Source

Fred Carpenter
was born in Nashville, TN, moving to St. Louis and attending the Washington, University School of Fine Arts in 1900. He served as a consultant to the World’s Fair in St. Louis in 1904 and thereafter became a faculty member of the Washington University School of Fine Arts and remained there until 1952. He painted lunettes in the MO state capitol building. His wife described him as a “impressionist-realist-expressionist” and was described as a colorist by a former student who said his color had a jewel like quality.
 * Paris, Missouri Mural, The Clemens Family Arrives in Monroe County depicts "Mark Twain's" arrival. His style is definitely evident in this work.

Edouard Chassaing (1895 - 1974)
^ Edouard Chassaing was born in France and immigrated to the United States, primarily working in Illinois.
 * Born 1895, Clermont-Ferrand, France
 * Died 1974, Chicago, IL
 * Married to Olga __________________ Spirit of Medicine Warding Off DiseaseU of I Medical Center - College of Medicine
 * Section of Fine Arts plaster relief entitled “Means of Mail Transportation” created by Edouard Chassaing in 1937. Brookfield, IL
 * The _____________________ post office contains three wooden reliefs by Edouard Chassaing. They were commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts in 1934. The work consists of 3 separate panels of a pig, turkey, and duck(?) flanked by a farmer carrying a bushel of corn and a female farmer(wife) carrying a large shock of wheat. This work was a wood relief, but he is best known for reinforced concrete ...Kankakee, IL.  Chassaing, as the head of WPA's Illinois Arts Project - Sculpture division and known for innovative cost-cutting methods, experimented with varied processes.

other works
These 2 Chicago sculpture was created with the help of New Deal funds..Federal Arts Project. Asclepius and Hygeia
 * Man and Woman plasterSmithsonian Art Museum
 * AsclepiusU of I Medical Center - College of Medicine
 * Hygeia---U of I Medical Center - College of Medicine

William Abbott Cheever

 * Captain John Smith Trading with the Indians,Smithfield, Virginia, William Abbott Cheever oil on canvas, 1941
 * The Reverend John Elliot Preaching to the Indians, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, William Abbott Cheever, 1941

Joe Cox

 * http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=5844
 * During the 1930s, Joe Cox worked for the Works Progress Administration, a government-sponsored program that put artists to work and made them part of America’s workforce. He identified with manual laborers whose survival was at stake, and Cox’s mural study for the Garrett, Indiana, post office reflects his sympathies. He chose to show the loggers hard at work, their muscular bodies bending over their tasks. Garrett had been mapped out in the 1870s by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The Chicago division of the B&O main line ran through, carrying people and goods to Baltimore and Washington, fueling Garrett’s economy and providing work for townspeople. During the Depression, however, the railroad’s consolidation led to many layoffs. This mural would have served as a reminder of the town’s heyday, when hard work and risk taking brought prosperity.
 * Iowa City, Iowa
 * Raleigh, NC


 * http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=1025
 * Joe Cox...Also Known as: Joseph H. Cox, Joe H. Cox, Joseph Cox
 * Born: Indianapolis, Indiana 1915
 * Active in:◾Iowa City, Iowa and Raleigh, North Carolina
 * “How can a painter compete with nature? Instead, I try to take those images that I have preserved in my memory and reinterpret them.” Joe Cox, quoted in Lupo, “Frame of Reference: The Lee Hansley Gallery Revives A Local Master Influenced by Cubism,” Independent Weekly, February 13, 2002)


 * Joe Cox grew interested in art as a high school student in Indianapolis, and honed his skills in college and graduate school. While he was in his twenties, the government commissioned him to paint murals for Michigan and Indiana post offices. In 1954 he landed a teaching position at North Carolina State University, where he remained for the next twenty years. Long after his years of working for the New Deal--sponsored Works Progress Administration, Cox continued to experiment with mural decoration, using such diverse materials as stained glass, anodized aluminum, and cast stone. He suffered from Parkinson’s disease and died at the age of eighty-two. (Mecklenburg, The Public As Patron, 1979)
 * Post Office Mural, Garrett, Indiana---Clearing the Right of Way is a post office mural completed by Joe Cox in 1938 under the auspices of the Section of Fine Arts. The size of the mural is 12’4″x 5′ and the medium is oil on canvas ("LND")


 * Mahler Fine Art Article
 * see MS document file

Allison B. Curry, Jr.

 * Jr comes from WWWinAA, page144

Whoooops This Curry seems to be a guy. Curry is also a "his" here [|//www.knowla.org/entry/525/] No Allison B Curry or A B Curry at ArtNet
 * Why? ...because Living New Deal uses "He", "he","he".???? Ill Check @ ArtNews
 * Louisiana Mural
 * There is a John Steuart Curry in W2W. Are they related?

New, in AiC- Charles Hubert Davies
Pg 119, "Active in Fed Arts Project in the '30s", LA County Hall of Records mural

Malette Dean

 * California Mural
 * possibly male, Harold Malette Dean or H. Malette Dean

John Hamilton Fyfe
FYFE, John Hamilton: needs to be added to the guy's list. He did 3 murals--"Cotton Harvest", "Magnolia, 1880", and "July 4 Celebration at Sheriff Laban Bacot's"--for the post office at Magnolia, Mississippi and a mural for the post office at Camden, Tennessee. Illustrator too. [U:SusW

Ted Gilien
was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1914 and first worked as an assistant to a muralist on Ellis Island. He died in Los Angeles, 1967.
 * Missouri Mural, Lee's Summit

Xavier Gonzalez (1898 - 1993 of leukemia)

 * Covington, Louisiana, Tung Oil Industry,  1939
 * Hammond, Louisiana, Strawberry Farming, 1937
 * Huntsville, Alabama, Tennessee Valley Authority
 * Kilgore, Texas|Kilgore, Pioneer Saga, 1941, oil on canvas
 * Kilgore, Drilling for Oil, 1941, oil on canvas
 * Kilgore, Music of Plains, 1941. oil on canvas
 * Kilgore, Contemporary Youth, 1941. oil on canvas

His wife, Edith Edwards painted 2 murals-Lake Providence, Louisiana and Marfa, Texas Lampasas, Texas ✅ ```Buster Seven   Talk  15:09, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Source

Barrie Barnstow Greenbie

 * Maine Mural
 * DEFINITELY A GUY
 * (?)...Not included On the Post Office List as being in Maine? Do a find on the list later today..
 * bio and paper's
 * wife's obit

Richard Haines

 * Added two Murals, one a PO, the other a HS Buster Seven   Talk 
 * Many missed murals w/ images Buster Seven   Talk  21:02, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Ernst Halberstadt (artist)

 * Massachusetts Mural...Chicopee Falls, History of......
 * Fort Monroe
 * OBIT

George Matthews Harding

 * check his article to see if several Pennsylvania murals are listed

Forrest Hill (artist)
mention in other mural design competitions, this is Hill's only federal mural work. He was employed as a draftsman for the Farmer's Union Central Exchange and has attended various art schools including a season at AIC in 1945. He works in oil, lithographs, and etching, and selects the western scene as his subject matter."
 * Dardanelle, Arkansas
 * From NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Registration form: ".....art financed thru the U.S. Treasury's Section of Fine Arts to employ Depression-era artists and place art in Federal Bldgs around the country."
 * United States Post Office and Courthouse–Glasgow Main Montana? Registratoion form reads: "The artist, Forrest Hill, was born in Park City, Montana, on May 1, 1909 and presently (2/12/86) resides in Laurel, Montana. Although he received honorable

Trew Hocker
Source:New Deal/W.P.A. Artist Biographies
 * The Louisiana Purchase Exposition was painted in 1940 by Trew Hocker, who was born in Sedalia, Mo. His mural was one of more than 2,500 post-office murals funded by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Section of Fine Arts (a.k.a. the Section) between 1934 and 1943.
 * Born on June 17, 1913 in Sedalia, MO. He studied at the University of Missouri, Kansas City Art Insitute, and the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. He also studied under Thomas Hart Benton. Hocker painted murals for the NY World’s Fair and the San Francisco Exposition. He was a District Supervisor of WPA Art Program, and later developed graphic training aids for the AAF in WWII. Hocker designed sets for television and stage in the 1950s, including the 1950s series, Ellery Queen starring Richard Hart. He also painted mural decorations for stores, restaurants, and colleges. He settled in New York City in 1947. Date of death unknown.

Lowell Houser

 * Ames, The Evolution of Corn, Lowell Houser, 1938. Lowell Houser painted this oil on canvas mural, entitled “The Evolution of Corn,” in 1938 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.

Houser was a local Iowa artist who studied in Mexico where he was enamored with Aztec sculptures that he encountered which accounts for the style of his murals.

In an oral history interview with the artist dated July 31, 1964, he discusses the conception and execution of the mural. Houser states that he came up with the concept that the cultivation of corn was historically Maya ‘or at least, ancient American Indian.’ He therefore decided to juxtapose a representation of the ancient cultivation of corn and the modern corn farming industry. On the one side he painted the Rain God, the Sun God, and other elements needed to make the corn grow in the Maya era, and on the other he repeated the same elements but from a Western scientific perspective. On the left, a mask of a Chac, a Rain God, and a lightning lizard are next to a dark cloud and a patch of rainfall; on the right, arrows representing water molecules (each inscribed with an ‘H2O’ shoot skyward, while an arrow labeled ‘HHO’ falls amidst a grey sheet of rain). On the Maya side, the Sun God head is an elaborate mask, while on the industrial side, a sun complete with sunspots and an absorption spectrum is surrounded by concentric rings bearing inscriptions of the chemical elements required for photosynthesis and the surface temperature of the sun, 6000 degrees Celsius.

Houser indicated in the above interview that he frequently sought out the advice of agricultural experts at Iowa State University in order to accurately represent different types of corn as they would have been cultivated throughout history, by the Maya and later by farmers in Iowa. This mural bears some minor similarities to one in Los Angeles, where the muralist Boris Deutsch also utilized Maya motifs and designs. In that mural, titled Cultural Contributions of North, South and Central America, Deutsch represented American Indians from both continents, and incorporated them into the fabric of the history of the Americas. Houser’s mural connects a primary industry and way of life of the local community to its roots in American Indian history, giving credit to the influences of indigenous American culture and inventions in modern-day economic activities. However, as with the Los Angeles mural, it could also be problematic in the false dichotomy it creates between American Indians and white Americans, equating one with past history and superstition, and the other with modern industry, science and reason. This tends to negate the reality that American Indian communities developed a Native science and have also adopted scientific understandings and methods for agriculture.” (LND)

Robert E. Larter

 * "Farm Life", Osweego, Kansas  Source
 * Robert Larter studied at Choate School and Yale University school of Fine Arts. He taught art at Washburn, University from 1938. There is another mural by Larter in Philadelphia

Schomer Lichtner and Ruth Grotenrath

 * List of Murals-- Lichtner did 4 murals Sheboygan, Wisconsin
 * Kohler foundation collection
 * Schomer (1905-2006)(passed away on May 9, 2006 at the age of 101). Ruth, his wife, (1912-1988)
 * ..both well-known Wisconsin artists, began their prolific careers as muralists for WPA projects, primarily post offices. A wonderful example can be seen in the Sheboygan, WI post office.
 * Wisconsin Academy
 * They were eventually introduced to each other by Gustave Moeller and were later wed in 1934.
 * ..Both artists worked in the sober tones of the social realist style typical of the austere 1930's. It’s interesting to note, especially in this era of reduced public spending on the arts, that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal helped to financially support these two artists during the Great Depression. Lichtner and Grotenrath both produced post office murals for the WPA. They were thrilled to receive $94 for 98 hours of work per month, and they carried forth the lessons of this era: even when times were better, they always lived frugally and supported themselves entirely from sales of their artwork—a feat many artists never fully achieve.- See more at:
 * Lichtner’s carpentry skills and the developing interest they shared in Japanese art and the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Lichtner had met Wright in 1929 while he was an art history student at UW–Madison. This acquaintance led to later visits to Taliesin where Lichtner and Grotenrath absorbed Wright’s vision of the organic relationships between nature and art. According to Montgomery (Bio's author), another important influence on their lives and art came in the form of the 1960s Zen guru Alan Watts, British author and interpreter of Zen Buddhism for an eager American audience. The couple heard him speak at Beloit College in 1962 and offered him a ride back to Milwaukee. They became fast friends with Watts, even traveling to Japan with him in 1955.

John Ward Lockwood (artist) (1894 - 1963)
studied at the Pennsylvania Academy and in Paris, followed by a year painting in the south of France with Kenneth Adams, a fellow Kansan. In 1926 Lockwood and his wife moved to Taos where Adams had already joined the Taos Society of Artists.

In 1932 he took a position at the Broadmoor Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, taught painting and lithography, and worked on W.P.A. public murals with Dasburg. Along with Bert Phillips and Victor Higgins, he painted the Taos County Courthouse murals. Although he maintained a home and studio near Taos for the rest of his life, Lockwood traveled widely.

In the 1940s he taught at the University of Texas, where he founded the painting department. During the 1950s he was on the painting faculty at Berkeley and exhibited with the Abstract Expressionist painters of the then-controversial San Francisco Art Association. Source

In 1936, the Wichita Kansas post office contained two oil-on-canvas murals, Kansas Farming, painted by Richard Haines and Pioneer in Kansas by John Ward Lockwood. Murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department. The post office building became the Federal Courthouse at 401 N. Market Street and the murals are on display in the lobby. From the Wichita, Kansas article.



Oil-on-canvas murals
..., painted in 1935-1936, are located on the east and west walls of the lobby. Artists J. Ward Lockwood and Richard Haines received the commissions through a post office mural project awarded by the U.S. Treasury Department's Painting and Sculpture Section.Wetmore]]. The building was constructed between August 1930 and April 1932 at a cost of $1.2 million.

"Pioneers in Kansas," the mural by Lockwood (a Kansas native), is a collage of images associated with role and evolution of the Postal Service during the settlement of the western United States. A stagecoach laden with mail and passengers marks the center of the canvas, with the other images radiating around it. A Pony Express rider and a Native American exchange fire on the left side of the canvas. A vulture flies above the rider, symbolizing imminent danger and death. A pioneer couple stands on the right side of the canvas, the woman reading a letter. A black steam engine emerges behind the couple, symbolizing continued western expansion.

"Kansas Farming," the mural by Richard Haines, depicts various aspects of rural life and farm production, focusing on the importance of urbanization, industrialization, and technology to the economic growth of the region. Rolling hills ripe with the bounty of the fall harvest comprise the idealized rural landscape. Tall corn and sunflower plants frame the center panel of the canvas, in which a farmer on horseback visits his neighbors. Nearby, a young girl holds mail in both hands as the boy waves to an unseen mail plane. A farmer feeds corn to his hogs and looks toward a group of produce packers on the left side of the canvas. In the distant background, a small town with a railroad depot and grain elevator represent the growing role of industry in agriculture. From the article United States Post Office and Federal Building (Wichita, Kansas)

Henrik Martin Mayer

 * married to Jessie Hull Mayer
 * 8 Murals at the Louisville, Kentucky Marine Hospital, murals for the solarium of the Cosmopolitan Club of New York--p 12
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James Edwin McBurney
In 1934, the city's 22 independent park commissions were consolidated into a new unified system, and Palmer Park (the source for these sentences) became park of the Chicago Park District. Park district art director James McBurney painted three murals for Palmer Park as a Works Progress Administration project with money from the federal government. The three are: "Native Americans," "Explorers," and "Dutch settlers." Restoration process Other noteworthy McBurney murals are found at the Wentworth School, Tilden High School, and Woodlawn National Bank all in the Chgoland area.

Solomon McCombs Creek Indian
paints Chickasaw Family Making Pah Sho Fah, for the post office in Marietta, OK, likewise emphasizing community collaborative values and traditional foods important to tribal nutrition and cultural identity. Labeled as “mundane” by some critics, these are scenes that tend to liberate the mind from themes of idealization, violence and pathos that normally dominate the subject.

Edward Millman
was born 1907 in Chicago, studied at the Chicago Art Institute and in Mexico City under Diego Rivera. He joined the Naval Reserve and designed posters, but subsequently went to the front, covering the war as an artist. He taught at the University of Indiana, Cornell University, the University of Buffalo, and at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he died in 1964.
 * Missouri Mural, Main Post Office, St Louis, Missouri...w/Mitchell Siporia
 * Millman mural restoration
 * @ Lucy Flowers Career Acad. H.S., Chgo.w/ Chad Perkins, Edward Millman, 1938-40, fresco,

Ross E. Moffett

 * 3 Massachusetts Murals need to be mentioned in the city articles ✅ Buster Seven   Talk  10:57, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Steven Mopope Kiowa Indian
selects the theme of spiritual connection as expressed in the eagle dance, and in his, Two Eagle Dancers, gives us a sublime and elegant interpretation. Somewhat in the flat, culture-bound style preferred by the artistic method encouraged by the non-Native art educator, Dorothy Dunn, still it bespeaks appreciation for the dancers’ concentration and flight. Mopope’s delicate work contrasts well with the bizarre idealization of The Indian Bear Dance, painted by Lithuanian artist, Boris Deutsch for the post office at Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, and intended to depict a disappearing people.

James Penney (artist)
was born in St. Joseph, MO and studied art at the University of Kansas, then studied at the Art Students League in New York. He later became the Vice President of the Art Students League.
 * Missouri Mural, Memories of Marion County, Palmyra, MIssouri

Henry Varnum Poor
Henry Varnum Poor entered Stanford as an economics major but graduated with a degree in fine art. After a year of study in London, Poor returned to California and taught at his alma mater. He eventually settled in Rockland County, New York, where he built a farmhouse and worked to establish himself as an artist. But his first gallery show was not a commercial success and to support himself he went to work as a potter, designing tiles for wealthy clients’ bathrooms. Fearing that his career was going downhill, Poor took his wife and young children to Paris so that he could focus on his painting. After he returned to New York, curators and critics praised his new work and from that time he built a successful career painting, designing homes, completing mural commissions, and working in ceramics. Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum


 * Fresno Post Office: A painted, glazed ceramic tile mural was made for the interior of the post office in 1942 by H V Poor. Source

In the 1930s he won major commissions for true-fresco murals, which are still extant in Washington on Justice Department walls and elsewhere
 * Is he related to Anne Poor?(The List - Female artists) Her Step-father
 * (AiC, page 366...just spent 1/2 hour entering data that was lost. Will start over but not right away. Poor was the only artist to be mentioned in AiC....b7

Glenn Ranney

 * Minnesota History, page 192

Donald H. Robertson

 * Donald H. Robertson (August 12, 1918-April 3, 2008) He painted the mural for the post office in Picayune, Mississippi called the "Lumber Region of Mississippi".

Donald Hall Robertson was born on August 12, 1918 to Leonard Franklin Robertson and attended Central High School in Washington, D.C. After graduating, he furthered his education at the Corcoran School of Art, where he earned the artist's scholarship of the New York-based The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. The scholarship allowed him to study for the summer of 1938 at the foundation's school for artists on Long Island. When he returned to Washington, after the summer, Robertson worked at The Washington Star in the photoengraving department. In 1939, he won the commission to paint the mural in the post office in Picayune, Mississippi. His mural the "Lumber Region of Mississippi" is believed to have been painted over in the 1970s.

Robertson enlisted at Camp Lee, Virginia for the United States Army Air Corps on November 18, 1941 and served in Europe and North Africa during World War II. He spent much of his time sketching and when he returned from his service, Robertson exhibited his watercolors done in Europe the Corcoran Gallery of Art in a show which opened on February 10, 1946. Reviewers compared his palette to that of Henri Matisse, who had also worked in this period in North Africa. He resumed his studies, taking classes at the Art Students League of New York and exhibiting works in Maryland, New York, and Virginia. His work increasingly moved away from landscapes and toward abstract.

In 1953, he married Lillian Alverna Snyder and while his career moved into art administration to support his growing family, he continued to paint. Robertson died on April 3, 2008 in Fredericksburg, Virginia and was buried at Culpeper National Cemetery.

Birger Sandzen
was born in Sweden and studied under Anders Zorn in Sweden at what became the Artists League. The post office contains a Section of Fine Arts mural entitled “Smoky River” painted by Birger Sandzen in 1938. Also Kansas Stream in Belleville Kansas post office NOTE: His article does NOT mention any of his mural work
 * He studied in Paris under Aman-Jean, a contemporary of Seurat who introduced Sandzen to Pointillism. He accepted a post at Bethany College in Lindsborg, KS, a Swedish community in central Kansas in the Smoky River Valley where he lived for the rest of his life. He became the head of the art department until 1946. He is well known for his bold brush strokes that are reminiscent of van Gogh, but was a printmaker and watercolorist. Although he was prolific, his work is only recently becoming recognized with the largest display at Bethany College at the museum bearing his name. Source

Thomas Savage (artist)
This mural was painted in 1945 by Thomas Savage in the Eupora, MS post office. He was a farmer from Iowa who excelled in painting farm scenes; in later years he would work as a commercial artist. He did three Treasury Section of Fine Arts murals, one in Jefferson, Iowa, one in New Hampton, Iowa and this lesser known one in '''Eupora. The title is “Cotton Farm”.'''

John Sharp
John Sharp painted this oil on canvas mural, entitled “Hunters,” in 1942 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is viewable in the Hawarden, INDIANA post office lobby.

An Iowa native, Sharp was inspired by other local artists, like Grant Wood. “Hunters” was his third and last mural painted for the federal government during the Great Depression (LND)
 * New Deal mural Summer painted by John Sharp in 1941 at Rockwell City Iowa

John M. Socha, John Socha
WPA MURAL (?)Snowed In (lithograph, ca. 1940)...worked with the Mexican masters Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco, large commissions for schools in Winona, MN. Crookston, MN. and New Ulm, MN...had a sense of large, full forms.
 * Minnesota History page 195

Andrew Standing Soldier, Ogalala-Lakota American Indian
Of the four hundred murals depicting American Indian themes, a handful were actually painted by American Indian artists. That the messaging in these is markedly different from the rest focuses our attention. A brief review of four Native artists to win commissions under the program helps to remind us that cultural competency and sense-of-self matters in the selection and interpretation of reality.

Andrew Standing Soldier, Oglala-Lakota, provides a wonderfully subdued and friendly scene of Indian families greeting each other, in The Arrival Celebration, The Round Up, a mural at the Blackfoot, Idaho post office. Standing Soldier eschews notions of idealized Indian bodies and civilizational themes of the non –Native artists for scenes familiar -- not to the general public -- but certainly to rural Indians and neighbors throughout the Western Plains. Similarly, Solomon McCombs, Creek, paints Chickasaw Family Making Pah Sho Fah,for the post office in Marietta, OK, likewise emphasizing community collaborative values and traditional foods important to tribal nutrition

Algot Stenbery

 * Wayne, Michigan, Landscape Near Wayne - 1875, mural is missing((ref name="park"))
 * Lived/Active: New York/Massachusetts     Known for: landscape-streets, illustrator  (askart.com)
 * Gale Stenbery was not née Storm but née March. (askart.com)
 * Algot Stenbery:last name was Stenberg until he changed it to Stenbery when he moved from Hartford,CT to Greenwich Village,NYC. Nickname was "Oggie" (askart.com)

Lorin Thompson (1911-1997)

 * see User:Buster7/Lorin Thompson for article draft
 * Altoona, Pennsylvania, Pioneers of Altoona, 1938, oil on canvas
 * Altoona, Pennsylvania, Growth of the Road, 1938, oil on canvas post office pic
 * Mercer, Pennsylvania, Clearing the Land, oil on canvas
 * Pascagoula, Mississippi, Legend of the Singing River, 1939, damaged in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina...Mural returns to Pascagoula Post Office
 * "The wall mural was painted in 1939 by Lorin Thompson (1911-97), who later became famous for creating and illustrating Ranger Rick for the National Wildlife Federation's children's magazine Ranger Rick," said Liz Ford, chairman of the Pascagoula Historic Preservation Commission.
 * Lorin Hartwell Jr Thompson
 * The following biographical information has been provided by Sandy Thompson, the artist's daughter. He was born in 1911, and died in 1997 His drawings, lithographs, etchings and paintings have been exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute,Corcoran Gallery of Fine Arts (Washington, DC), the National Gallery (Washington, DC), the Whitney Museum (New York City), and the Carnegie Museum (Pittsburgh, PA) He created and illustrated Ranger Rick for the National Wildlife Federation's children's magazine Ranger Rick. Lived/Active: Pennsylvania, Known for: genre, illustration, mural Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor), Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947

James B. Turnbull
was born in St. Louis in 1909, studied journalism at the Univ. of Missouri, then the School of Fine Arts in St. Louis and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He lobbied for and was then named the director of the Missouri WPA project, resigning in 4 months to pursue art. He painted 2 murals in Missouri, Loading Cattle in Jackson, and_______________ in___________. During WWII, he was a war correspondent for Life magazine and after the war settled in Woodstock, NY.

Andrew McD Vincent
The Toppenish, WA post office contains a 1940 Section of Fine Arts mural by Andrew McD. Vincent, Local Theme. Located southeast of the city of Yakima, Toppenish is located entirely the Yakama Indian Nation. According to the 1991 National Register(✅Buster Seven   Talk  ) nomination for the Toppenish Post Office: “The lobby contains a mural on the west end over the Postmaster’s door. Entitled “Local Theme,” the mural is oil on canvas.” The mural depicts “cattlemen branding a steer, Indian hunters, Whites trading horses with the Indians, and a farm.” The artist, Andrew Vincent was born in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1898''' and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He also completed a post office mural in Salem, Oregon. (LND)

W. Richard (Dick) West Southern Cheyenne Indian
in his Grand Council of 1842, for the post office at Okemah, Oklahoma, captures the foremost Indian message of that historical moment: the tradition and practice of Indian tribal self-government. The New Deal era was crucial to American Indian tribal survival, ushering new policies that recognized and reorganized tribal government. West’s rich and prescient mural provides a view of Indian leadership determinedly conducting political affairs for their own nations. Centrally depicted on the wall: The Seal of the Great Muscogee Nation. Most compellingly, in West’s selection of the subject of tribal self-government, he lands on a “grand council” not with the US government, but between and among tribal nations, settling hunting and land issues. This important painting –assigned the educational mission of public art – signaled an important moment for American Indians, when the expectation of survival as sovereign nations replaced the expectation of extinction. West’s matter-of-fact interpretation of the momentous new Indian policy theme is keen messaging to his present and future generations. (His son, Richard W. West (SNMAI), became founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian).

There is much to be discerned about these post office murals from the 1930s and 1940s, and what they can tell us about the way we see and have seen the world. For American Indians, always envisioned through multiple social and cultural lenses, all interpretation is worth examination, and all distortion deserves challenge, and, when needed, correction. Quality, of course, from whatever hand, is always worthy of praise.
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 * !!!Dick has an article. He was a family friend when I was growing p in Oklahoma. It's here: W. Richard West, Sr.. SusunW (talk) 20:12, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Okla. Historic Society

 * the one opportunity in Okemah Okla was limited to OK Indian artist only ...Out of 7---6 were Am Indian. The 7th was Edith Mahier, A U of Okla. Art Professor
 * 31 (????) works between 1937 and 1942
 * www.turtletrack.org/issues14/c003_2014/CO_0314/PostOfficeMurals.htm

William D. White
The multiple-paneled fresco Harvest, Spring and Summer was painted by William D. White for the Dover, Delaware post office the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It depicts the saga of the life and industries of Kent County.

White, of Carcroft, near Wilmington.

the United States Treasury Department’s Relief Art Project.

“Murals are no stranger to this well known Delaware artist. Under the Civil Works Administration, he did some fine work for the U. S. Veterans’ Hospital in Coatesville, Pa., and has decorated private homes. His specialty, however, has been illustrating and his work has appeared in many magazines. He has illustrated several books, chiefly biographies.

Mr. White is a native of Delaware, and was born in Wilmington. He is a veteran of the World War, having served in the army. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and is a familiar figure about Delaware. (williamdwhite.com)