New Deal/WPA Art in West Virginia


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

Elkins,
Forestry Service

Stevan Dohanos

"Forest Service" and "Mining Village"

1939

tempera

Fayetteville

Nixford Baldwin

"The Miners"

1939

oil on canvas

Holidays Cove

Charles Chapman

"Captain Bilderbook's and John Schoolcraft's Expedition from Holiday's Cove to Fort Wheeling, 1777"

1940

mural

Kenova

Albino Cavallito

"Worker"

1941

sculpture

Lewisburg

Robert F. Gates

"Old Time Camp Meeting"

1940

egg tempera on canvas

Logan

Gleb Derujinsky

"The Letter"

1940

sculpture

Mannington

Richard Zoellner

"Landscape at Frogtown"

1942

oil on canvas

Marlinton

Edwin Dorsey Doniphan

"Mill Point" and "Past Visions the Future"

1939

oil on canvas

Mount Hope

Michael Lensen

"Mining"

1942

oil on canvas

Oak Hill

Henri Crenier

"The Colonel Mail Rider"

1938

oil on canvas

Ripley

Joseph Servas

"The Pride of Jackson County"

1942

wood

Saint Albans

Reuben R. Kramer

"Science and Industry"

1941

wood

Saint Marys

Alexander B. Clayton

"St. Mary's and the Industries of the Region"

1939

oil on canvas

Salem

Berni Glasgow

"Visions of the Development of Salem"

1942

oil on canvas

Spencer

Vicken von Post Totten

"Pastoral of Spencer"

1938

plaster of Paris

Webster Springs

Lenore Thomas

"Springtime"

no date

glazed terra-cotta

Weirton,
Cove Station

Vincent Glinsky

"Pony Express and Rural Delivery"

1940

cast stone

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


Morgantown - There is a Robert Lewis Lepper murals installed in Room M-21 of White Hall ( the "Geology Building") on the campus of West Virginia University. Across the front of the room is a mural of workers in industries in and around the Monongahela, Ohio, Allegheny rivers (coal mining, steel production, and brick making). The mural is dated 1941-42 by the artist Robert L. Lepper from Pittsburgh. information contributed by Bob Behling.


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