New Deal/WPA Art in Mobridge, South Dakota

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

Mobridge, SD Post Office
"Return from the Fields" - oil on canvas
Elof Wedin (1938)

Images courtesy of the USPS

Photographs taken by Marge Mathers

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

Thanks to Wendy Lawrenson who contributed the photographs!

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