New Deal/WPA Art in Oklahoma


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

Anadarko

Stephan Mopope

scenes of Indian life

1937

tempera

Claremore

Randall Davey

"Will Rogers"

1939

tempera

Clinton

Loren Mozley

"Race for Land"

1938

oil on canvas
(moved)

Coalgate

Acee Blue Eagle

Indian Family at routine tasks

1942

acrylic
(mural restored
by Fred Beaver)

Cordell

Ila Turner McAfee

"The Scene Changes"

1938

oil on canvas

Drumright

Frank Long

"Oklahoma Land Rush"

1941

oil on canvas

Edmond

Ila Turner McAfee

"Pre-Settlement Days"

1939

oil on canvas

Guyman

Jay Risling

"Harvest"

1939 (?)

mural
(destroyed)

Hollis

Lloyd Goff

"Planning the route"

1941

oil and egg tempera

Hugo
(now Adminstrative Offices of Hugo School System, 208 N. 2nd St.)

Joseph A. Fleck

"Chocktaw Indians See the First Mail Coach"

1938

oil on canvas

Idabel
(moved to the Museum of the Red River)*

H. Louis Freund

"The Last Home of the Choctaw Nation"

1940

oil on canvas

Madill

Ethel Magafan

"Prairie Fire"

1941

tempera

Marietta

Solomon McCombs

"Chicksaw Indian Family Making Pah Sho Fah"

no date

oil on canvas
(mural originally restored by Fred Beaver)

Marlow

Lew E. Davis

"Cattle Days"

1942

oil on canvas

Nowata

Woodrow Crumbo

"Rainbow Trail"

1943

tempera

Okemah

Walter Richard (Dick) West

"Grand Council of 1842"

1941

tempera

Pawhuska

Olive Rush

"Osage Treaties"

1938

oil on canvas

Perry
(now in Perry Historial Museum)

Thomas M. Stell, Jr.

"Range Branding Down by the Big Tank"

1941

oil on canvas
(damaged)

Poteau

Joan Cunningham

"Cotton"

1940

oil on canvas

Purcell

Fred Conway

"The Roundup"

1940

oil on canvas

Sayre

Vance Kirkland

"The Opening of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Country"

1940

oil on canvas

Seminole

Acee Blue Eagle

"Seminole Indian Village Scene"

1939

oil on canvas

Stillwater

Grace L. Hamilton

"Early Days in Payne County"

no date

oil on canvas
(TRAP?)

Stilwell

Olga Mohr

"Cherokee Indian Farming and Animal Husbandry"

1942

oil on canvas

Sulphur

Albert T. Reid

"Romance of the Mail"

1939

oil on canvas

Tahlequah
(now First National Bank Accounting Center)

Manual A. Bromberg

"Choctaw Ball-Play 1840"

1939

oil on canvas

Vinita,
Post Office and Courthouse

Randall Davey

"History of the Cherokee Nation"

1941

tempera

Watonga

Edith Mahier

"Roman Nose Canyon"

1941

oil on canvas

Waurika

Theodore Van Soelen

"Wild Geese"

1939

oil on canvas

Weatherford

Oscar E. Berninghaus

"Terminus of the Railroad, 1898-1901"

1939

oil on canvas

Wewoka

Marjorie Clarke

"Historical Background of Wewoka"

1941

oil on canvas

Yukon

Dahlov Ipcar

"The Run, april 22, 1889, Taking the Lead"

1941

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

*location information courtesy of Sharon Fields McKeever


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