List of New Deal sculpture

Aquarius (1938), by Samuel Cashwan, for the John F. Dye Water Conditioning Plant in Lansing, Michigan

During the New Deal era, the United States federal government funded relief, architectural, and freestanding sculpture throughout the country and its territorries.

This New Deal artwork included works produced under the Public Works of Art Project (1933–1934), Treasury Relief Art Project (1935–1938), Federal Art Projects (1935–1943), the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture (1934–1943), and other federally sponsored projects.

Unless otherwise noted, sources are from Park and Markowitz[1] or American Art Annual, 1941.[2] "USPO" refers to a United States Post Office building.

Alabama

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Alexander City Post Office, Alexander City Tobacco, Wheat, and Cotton Franc Epping terra cotta 1941 Reliefs stored in the modern Alexander City City Hall; original post office building became a community center, then microbrewery.[3][4][5]
Opp City Hall (formerly Opp Post Office), Opp Commercial Historic District,[6] Opp Opp Hans Mangelsdorf wood 1940 Relief missing, last known to be in the possession of the Opp Historical Society in the 1990s.[7][8]
Scottsboro Post Office, Scottsboro Alabama Agriculture Constance Ortmayer plaster 1940 Three-panel relief[9][10]

Arizona

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Cochise County Court House, Bisbee[11]: 3  The Arizona Miner Phillips Sanderson painted cast stone 1935 nine-foot-tall statue in front of building
USPO Flagstaff Arizona logging Robert Kittredge plaster 1940 relief, since moved, missing
Arizona State Fairgrounds Grandstand, Phoenix[11]: 14–15  history and Arizona activities David Carrick Swing and Florence Blakeslee copper sprayed cast concrete 1936 23 panels
USPO & Forestry Building, Springerville Apache Chiefs Geronimo and Vittorio Robert Kittredge plaster 1939 relief
Arizona State University campus, Tempe[11]: 13  fountain Emry Kopta cast concrete 1934 only the bottom of three tiers was completed
Hayden Library, Arizona State University, Tempe[11]: 14  The Flute Player Emry Kopta bronze 1934 originally intended as top of fountain

Arkansas

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Berryville Post Office Man and Woman, Arkansas Daniel Gillette Olney 1940
Monticello Post Office Tomato Culture Berta Margoulies terra cotta 1941 3 reliefs

California

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Bell Eagle Stuart Holmes wood 1937 "in private hands"[12]
United States Post Office (Berkeley, California) Pony Express-Early California David Slivka limestone 1937 relief
USPO Burlingame The Letter James L. Hansen cast stone 1941
USPO Claremont Eagle Stuart Holmes 1936 missing
USPO Colton Eagle Sherry Peticolas and Gordon Newell 1936
USPO Covina Covina Desert Orange Groves Atanas Katchamakoff Spanish cedar 1941 relief
Urho Saari Swim Stadium, El Segundo Swimmers Merrill Gage[13] 1941[14] Untitled reliefs of figures in swimwear flanking the main entrance[15]
Fresno Unified School District Education Center, originally U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Fresno RFD 1 and RFD 2 Helen Bell Bruton terra cotta 1940 reliefs[16][17]
American Eagles William Calfee cast concrete 1940
Justice Archibald Garner cast concrete 1940 relief
USPO Gardena Rural Life Rudolph Parducci 1941 carved mahogany relief; see also exterior detail: prop plane, train, ship
Glendale Community College, Glendale Fountain with mosaic[18] Archibald Garner
USPO Hollister Early California Vladimir Menkoff; Joseph Stone and Avis Zeigler, assistants wood 1936
USPO Inglewood Centinela Springs Archibald Garner mahogany 1937 relief
Inglewood Buffalo, Bear, Cougar, Bighorn Sheep Sherry Peticolas and Gordon Newell plaster 1937
King City High School, King City King City High School Auditorium Jo Mora Concrete 1939 listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Monterey County, California
USPO Livermore The Ranch Post Box Robert Boardman Howard oak 1941 relief
Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles Astronomers Monument Roger Noble Burnham, Djey El Djey, Arnold Foerster, Archibald Garner, Gordon Newell, and George Stanley concrete 1934 [19]
United States Post Office (Hollywood, Los Angeles) Horsemen Sherry Peticolas and Gordon Newell wood 1937
Lafayette Park, Los Angeles Power of Water Henry Lion, Jason Herron, and Sherry Peticolas; engineer Paul Jeffers 1934 Fountain with bas relief frieze commissioned by the PWAP[19]
Cabrillo Beach, San Pedro, Los Angeles Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo Henry Lion cast concrete 1936 Statue of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo commissioned by the Federal Art Project.[20]
Spring Street Courthouse, originally U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Los Angeles Eagles James Hansen 1941
Eagles Henry Lion cast stone 1938 Two eagles on the facade
Law Archibald Garner limestone 1941 "in storage" (1984)
Young Lincoln James L. Hansen limestone 1941 "now Recorder of Deeds"[1]: 203 
USPO Oceanside Eagle Stuart Holmes 1936 carved grill
Newman Park, Riverside[21] Juan Bautista De Anza Sherry Peticolas carved granite 1939 statue
Departure from Tubac Second De Anza Expedition, 1775 Dorr Bothwell[21] sandstone 1939 bas relief
USPO Roseville The Letter Zygmund Sazevich wood 1937 relief
USPO Salinas Cowboy, Cattleman, and Cowboy and Horse Richard O'Hanlon walnut 1937 reliefs
USPO San Fernando Transportation of the Mail Sherry Peticolas and Gordon Newell Wood 1936 Truck, horse, ship, train, stagecoach[18]
USPO San Diego Transportation of the Mail Archibald Garner 1937
San Francisco Mint Minting Process and Eagle Albert Stewart bronze 1937 4 reliefs
St. Matthew Station, formerly San Mateo Main Post Office, San Mateo Indian Maidens Zygmund Sazevich wood 1935 relief[22]
United States Post Office-Santa Barbara Main Transportation of the Mail William Atkinson plaster 1937 6 sunken reliefs
USPO Santa Clara Early Pioneers Michael von Meyer wood 1937
Santa Monica Santa Monica Eugene Morahan Concrete 1934 Statue commissioned by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP)[19]
USPO Yuba City The Wealth of Sutter County Lulu H. Brighetta wood 1942 relief

Colorado

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Delta Post Office, Delta Cattle and Fruit Mary Kittredge plaster 1942 bas reliefs
Byron White United States Courthouse, Denver Rocky Mountain Sheep and White Ram Denver Courthouse ram Gladys Caldwell Fisher limestone 1936
Las Animas Post Office, Las Animas Kiowa Travois Gladys Caldwell Fisher wood 1939 relief
USPO Longmont Transcontinental Mail or Ways of the Mail Arnold Ronnebeck terra cotta 1937 3 reliefs, missing

Connecticut

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO New Milford The Post Mildred Jerome wood 1938 reliefs, building now (1984 school board offices
USPO Oakville The Picnickers Theodore Barbarossa wood 1941 relief
Norwalk Main Post Office, South Norwalk, Norwalk Eagle Gaetano Cecere marble 1941 relief
Fairgate housing complex, Stamford Mother and Son Henry Kreis Pink granite 1938 Originally sculpted for Fairfield Court (now Fairgate) public housing
Czescik Marina Park, Stamford Neighbors
USPO Windsor Stringing, Transplanting, and Harvesting Nena de Brennecke wood 1943

District of Columbia

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Department of Commerce Building[23] James Earle Fraser and Laura Gardin Fraser created 1/2" to 1' plaster sketches of all the pediments fabricated by various sculptors Several of the sculptural elements on the building by Ricci & Zari and carved by Edward Ardolino were executed before the New Deal so don't fit into the parameters of this article. The later sculpture finished in 1934 does fall into the New Deal era.
Foreign and Domestic commerce Ulysses Ricci limestone 1934 designed by James Earle Fraser
Fisheries Joseph Kiselewski limestone 1934 designed by James Earle Fraser, carved by the Gino Ratti Company
Aeronautics Haig Patigian limestone 1934 designed by James Earle Fraser, carved by Geno A. Ratti Company
Mining Frederick G.R. Roth 1943 designed by James Earle Fraser, carved by the Gino Ratti Company
Federal Trade Commission Building Construction Chaim Gross limestone 1938
Shipping Robert Laurent limestone 1938
Aluminum grills William McVey Aluminum 1938
Agriculture Concetta Scaravaglione limestone 1938
Foreign Trade Carl Schmitz limestone 1938
American Eagles Sidney Waugh limestone 1938
Federal Trade Commission Building, Constitution Avenue side Man Controlling Trade
Michael Lantz limestone 1942
Federal Trade Commission Building, Pennsylvania Avenue side Man Controlling Trade
Michael Lantz limestone 1942
Government Printing Office Warehouse Building Men Stacking Paper Stock, Printing Press Activities Elliott Means 1937
Government Printing Office Seal Armin Scheler 1937
former Home Owners' Loan Corporation Building 7 reliefs, "The Building Trades" Albert Stewart limestone 1936
Internal Revenue Service Building four identical eagles with fasces Ricci & Zari limestone 1936
Langston Terrace Dwellings Emancipation of the Colored Man aka The Progress of the Negro Race Daniel Olney terra cotta 1937
National Zoological Park Pre-historic Animals Charles R. Wright 1937
Anteater, Entrance to the Mammal House Erwin Springweiler 1937
Tumbling Bears Heinz Warneke 1938
Post Office Department Building Post Rider Continental 1775 to 1789
Alexander Stirling Calder aluminum 1936
Rural Free Delivery
Gaetano Cecere 1936
Portraits of 8 former Postmasters General
Gleb Derujinsky 1937
Alaska Snowshoe Carrier
Chaim Gross aluminum 1936
Pony Express 1850–1858
Arthur Lee 1937
Air Mail
Oronzio Maldarelli 1936
Samuel Osgood, First Postmaster General Paul Manship 1937
Postman 1961-1775 Berta Margoulies 1936
Present Day Postman
Attilio Piccirilli 1937
Railway Mail-1862
Concetta Scaravaglione 1936
City Delivery Carrier
Carl Schmitz 1936
Tropical Postman
Louis Slobodkin 1936
Express Man
Heinz Warneke 1936
Stage driver, 1789–1836
Sidney Waugh 1936
Benjamin Franklin, the First Colonial Postmaster William Zorach 1937
Social Security & RR Retirement Board Building American Eagle Richmond Barthé 1940
Family group, Unemployment Compensation Emma Lu Davis 1941
Railroad Employment, Railroad Retirement Robert Kittredge 1941
The Growth of Social Security, The Benefits of Social Security Henry Kreis 1941
Two eagles Heinz Warneke 1941
U.S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building Sculptured frieze Richard Massoni limestone 1938
Stewart Lee Udall US Department of the Interior Building American Bison
Boris Gilbertson limestone 1940
American Moose
Boris Gilbertson limestone 1940
Negro Mother and Child
Maurice Glickman bronze 1934 Installed 1940
Abe Lincoln Louis Slobodkin 1940
Powell Exploring the Grand Canyon
Ralph Stackpole 1940
Lewis & Clark Heinz Warneke 1940

Florida

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Arcadia Arcadia Constance Ortmayer plaster 1939
David W. Dyer Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Miami Love & Hope Alexander Sambugnac cast stone 1938 relief
Wisdom & Courage

Georgia

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Ashburn Southern Farm Life Maurice Glickman 1947 missing (2016)[12]
Techwood Homes Housing Project, Atlanta Fawn Ahron Ben-Shmuel 1936
USPO Cochran The Little Farmer Ilse Erythropel glazed terra cotta 1940 relief
USPO Lyons Wild Duck and Deer Albino Manca terra cotta 1942 relief
USPO Manchester Game Bird Hunt Erwin Springweiler mahagony 1941 relief
USPO Winder Weighing Cotton Marion Sanford plaster 1939 now located in Barrow County Museum
USPO Wrightsville Transgression Earl N. Thorp cast stone 1940 relief

Hawaii

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Schofield Barracks, Honolulu Primitive Communications Roy King wood 1943

Idaho

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Boundary County Courthouse, Bonners Ferry Three untitled friezes[24] Fletcher Martin colloquially referred to as Floating Logs, Harvest, and Mining; NHRP-listed

Illinois

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Abington Post Rider Hillis Arnold terra cotta 1941 relief
USPO Brookfield Means of Mail Transportation Edouard Chassaing plaster 1937
USPO Carlyle Fish Hatchery Curt Drewes cast stone 1939
National Public Housing Museum (originally Jane Addams Homes), Chicago Animal Court Edgar Miller 1938 Seven animal figures[25][26]
USPO Chicago, Kedzie-Grace Mercury Peterpaul Ott aluminum 1938
USPO Chicago,Logan Square The Post Hildreth Meiere metal 1937
USPO Evanston The Message, The Answer Armin Scheler limestone 1940 reliefs
Throwing the Mail, Mail Handlers Robert Russin cast aluminum surfaced with gold foil 1941
USPO Homewood The Letter Maurine Montgomery (Gibbs) wood 1942 relief
USPO Kankakee Farming Edouard Chassaing wood 1943
USPO Macomb Cow and Calf Boris Gilbertson wood 1943 relief in black walnut completed but not installed, collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
USPO Morton Spirit of Communication Charles Umlauf cast stone 1939 relief
USPO Nokomis Coal Mining Bernard Rosenthal wood 1947
USPO Peoria Postal Service, Judiciary, Agriculture, Industry Freeman Schoolcraft limestone 1939
Florine Anna Martin Becker Plaza, Peoria Peace and Harvest Mary Andersen Clark limestone 1939 Originally installed at the Peoria Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium, the pair of statues have been moved several times since the sanitarium's closure in the mid-1970s.[27]
USPO Plano Harvest Peterpaul Ott wood 1941 relief
USPO Rock Falls Farming by Hand, Manufacture of Farm Implements Curt Drewes plaster 1939 relief
USPO Sandwich The Family Marshall Fredericks terra cotta 1941 relief
USPO White Hall The Potter and His Burro Felix Schlag plaster 1939 relief

Indiana

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Bedford Limestone Quarry Worker John Fabion terra cotta relief
USPO Bloomfield Waiting for the Mail Lilian Swann Saarinen terra cotta 1941 relief, missing[12]
USPO Fowler Rest During Prairie Plowing Nat Werner cast stone 1940
U.S. Courthouse and Post Office, Indianapolis Distribution of the Mail David Rubins limestone 1937 two panels
USPO Tell City The Noon Mail Laci de Greenday wood 1939 relief

Iowa

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Food Sciences Building, Iowa State University, Ames Nine bas relief panels that depict the history of dairy technology Christian Petersen Terra cotta 1934–1935 [28]

Kansas

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Burlington Post Office, Burlington Boy and Colt Robert Kittredge stone 1942
USPO Columbus R.F.D. Waylande Gregory terra cotta 1940 "crated in basement"[1]: 211 
Fredonia Post Office, Fredonia Delivery of the Mail to the Farm Lenore Thomas Straus glazed terra cotta 1939
Smoky Hill Museum (Salina Post Office and Federal Building), Salina Land and Communication Carl Mose limestone 1940

Kentucky

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO and Courthouse, Covington Horsebreeding, Tobacco Carl L. Schmitz limestone 1940 reliefs
Justice Romuald Kraus bronze 1942 replica of the sculpture created for the post office and courthouse in Newark, New Jersey[29]
Jenkins Miner and Daughter F. Jean Thalinger terra cotta 1943 reliefs, missing (2016)[12]
USPO Springfield Signing the Marriage Contract of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, Kentucky Pioneer, and Woodchopper Richard Davis limestone 1941
Williamstown In Kentucky Romauld Kraus limestone 1942 reliefs

Louisiana

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Leesville The Letter Duncan Ferguson 1939
Many Cotton Pickers Julius Struppeck 1941
F. Edward Hebert Federal Building, New Orleans Eagle Gifford Proctor terra cotta 1941 4 eagles
Flood Control Karl Lang limestone 1942 relief
Harvesting Sugar Cane Armin Scheler limestone 1941 relief
USPO Vivian Trade & Learning, Rural Mail, Harvest John Tatschl walnot 1941 reliefs

Maine

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Dexter News for the Woodsman Elliott Means wood 1941 relief
USPO Fairfield A Letter Joseph Walter plaster 1939 relief
USPO Farmington Lillian Nordica Hetty Beatty wood 1939 relief
Norway Jacob Howe, First Post Rider Margaret Vincent wood 1942 relief

Maryland

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Aberdeen Commermation Henri Brenner plaster 1938 missing
USPO Dundalk Welding Harrison Gibbs wood 1942 relief
USPO Pocomoke The Power of Communication Perna Krick wood 1939 relief

Massachusetts

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Ayer Rural Mail Leo Friedlander wood 1943 relief
Old Harbor Housing Project, Boston Fisherman, Industry, Farmer & Blacksmith George Aarons 1938
Boston Decorative relief Frederick Brunner 1937
USPO Chicopee 4 carved grilles in lobby Frederick Brunner wood 1936
USPO Clinton History of a Letter Theodore Barbarossa plaster 1939 relief
Foxboro Straw Cutting and Weaving Arnold Geissbuhler wood 1941 relief
Greenfield Planting, Reaping, Mother and Child Hélène Sardeau 1941
Hyannis Cape Cod Fishermen Benjamin Hawkins cast stone 1940 relief
USPO Mansfield Farmers & Geese Joseph Coletti plaster 1939 relief
USPO North Adams Mohawk Trail Workers, Mills Digging Tunnel Louis Slobodkin cast stone 1942 reliefs
USPO Orange The Builders of Orange Oronzio Maldarelli plaster 1939 relief
USPO Saugus Historic Saugus Robert Penn aluminum 1941 relief
USPO Stoneham Shoemakers of Stoneham William Zorach terra cotta relief
USPO Wakefield Two medallions, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington Fortunato Tarquinio marble 1936 reliefs on facade
USPO West Springfield The New England Post Rider Walker Hancock plaster 1938 relief
USPO Whitinsville Colonel Paul Whitin, Blacksmith Milton Horn plaster 1939 relief
USPO Whitman Liberty Attilio Piccirilli plaster 1940 relief
USPO Winchendon Industry and landscape of Winchendon Minna Harkavy wood 1942 relief
USPO Wollaston Welder George Kratina wood 1942 relief

Michigan

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Michigan League, University of Michigan Central Campus Historic District, Ann Arbor Sea Nymph Clivia Calder glazed ceramic, concrete 1938 Sponsored by the Michigan League, a women's league at the University of Michigan; located in the Eula D. Marcks Courtyard Garden[30][31][32]
Belle Isle Bridge, Detroit[33] Father Gabriel Richard Leonard Jungwirth granite c. 1938
Sarah Langdon Williams Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing[34]: 106–107  Children Reading Clivia Calder Morrison glazed terra cotta c. 1938
USPO Highland Park American Eagle Erwin Springweiler granite 1940
USPO Iron River Paul Bunyan Straightening Out the Round River Milton Horn wood[35] 1941 relief
John F. Dye Water Conditioning Plant, Lansing Aquarius Samuel Cashwan Concrete 1938–39 exterior relief[30][34]: 48–49 
Water Nymphs Clivia Calder glazed terra cotta 1941 fountain in lobby[30][34]: 142 
USPO Mason Early Postman Marion Overby terra cotta 1939
USPO Munising Harbor of Munising Chippewa Leggend Hugo Robus wood[35] 1939 relief
USPO River Rouge The Horseless Carriage Marshall Fredericks stone 1939 relief
USPO Rochester Communication Alexander Sambugnac cast stone 1939
Royal Oak Post Office, Royal Oak The First Harvest, Pioneer Family Sidney Loeb 1940 reliefs missing as of 2012[36]
USPO Traverse City[35] The Cherry Picker Marion Overby wood 1941 relief missing as of 2012[36]

Minnesota

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO
Park Rapids Indian, Lumberjack, Park Service Symbol Alonzo Hauser plaster 1941
St. Cloud Mississippi Divides the Southwest from the Northeast Brenda Putnam plaster 1939 relief, moved to Minnesota Department of Manpower Services Building

Mississippi

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Carthage Lumberman Rolling a Log Peter Dalton wood 1941 relief
Ripley Development of the Postal Service George Aarons cast stone 1939 3 reliefs; moved to new Ripley post office

Missouri

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO La Plata Missouri Livestock Emma Lou Davis wood 1939 relief
USPO Maplewood Family Group Carl Mose wood 1942 relief

New Hampshire

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Derry Town of Derry Vladimir Yoffe plaster 1938 relief

New Jersey

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Boonton Morning Mail Enid Bell wood 1939 relief
USPO Caldwell Sorting the Mail Brenda Putnam plaster 1937 lunette, in storage (2016)[37]
Westfield Acres Housing Project, Camden Workers Ahron Ben-Shmuel 1937
USPO Cliffside Park Rural Delivery Bruno Neri plaster 1938 relief
USPO Garfield The Transportation of Mail Robert Laurent 1937
USPO Haddon Heights The Letter Isamu Noguchi cast stone 1939 relief
USPO Hammonton Harvest Spero Anageros 1940 relief, missing (2016)
USPO Harrison Industry and the Family Murray Roper plaster 1940 relief
USPO Linden Industry Sahl Swarz terra cotta 1940
USPO Matawan Phillip Freneau Freeing His Slaves, Rural Mill, Old Hospital, Old Greenwood Institute, First Presbyterian Church Armin Scheler plaster 1939 reliefs
USPO Metuchen Gardeners Harold Ambellam plaster 1942 relief
USPO Mt. Holly The Post-1790 Enid Bell wood 1937 relief
New Brunswick Main Post Office, New Brunswick The Dispatch Rider Ruth Nickerson 1937 missing (2016)
Frank R. Lautenberg Post Office and Courthouse, Newark Justice
Romuald Kraus bronze 1938 located in the center of the rotunda on the third floor of the building[29]
Aluminum silhouettes Vicken Totten aluminum 1935 Two medallions representing light and darkness
USPO Paterson Postman and Hawthorne Bush Ilse Erythropel wood 1942 relief
USPO Paulsboro Oil Refining Nena de Brennecke wood 1940 3 reliefs
USPO Pitman The Four Winds Nathaniel Choate plaster 1937 relief
USPO Pompton Benjamin Franklin Alexander Stirling Calder cast stone 1939
USPO Ridgewood Man Woman Romuald Kraus metal 1940 reliefs
USPO South River Construction Maurice Glickman wood 1943 relief
Toms River Boating on Barnegat Bay Milton Hebald 1941 missing (2016)
USPO Westwood Pegasus Hunt Diederich metal 1937 destroyed
Perth Amboy Public Library, Perth Amboy Children's fairy tales murals cast-plaster reliefs Originally created for children's library building which burned down in 1977. Survived fire and are now displayed in children's section of the main library.[38]

New Mexico

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Richardson Pavilion, University of New Mexico Children's Hospital, Albuquerque Mercy Oliver LaGrone cast marblestone 1937 Originally made for the Carrie Tingley Hospital for Children in Hot Springs, New Mexico.[39]

New York

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Angola A Pioneer Woman's Bravery
Leopold Scholz cast stone relief 1940
USPO Bay Shore Speed Wheeler Williams 1937
USPO Canton Stillman Foote Acquires Homestead of John Harrington Berta Margoulies painted plaster 1939 relief
USPO Cooperstown figures of James Fenimore Cooper, Natty Bumppo, and Chingachgook Bela Janowsky bronze 1937 relief
USPO Courtland Valley of the Seven Hills Ryah Ludins painted wood 1943 relief
USPO Fairport The Harvest Henry Van Wolf bronze 1939 relief
USPO Flushing, Forest Hills The Spirit of Communication
Sten W. J. Jacobsson terracotta 1938
USPO Frankfort Growth Albert Wein wood 1942 relief
USPO Geneva Eagle, Industry, Education, Agriculture, and Aviation Theodore Barbarossa cast stone 1938 reliefs
USPO Great Neck American Eagle
Gaetano Cecere 1940 sunken relief
USPO Hamilton Messengers of the Mail Humbert Albriziio 1938 relief
USPO Hudson Evolution of Transportation Vincent Glinsky cast stone 1938 five reliefs
USPO Ilion Eliphalet Remington Edmond Amateis 1937 relief
USPO Lowville Joy in the Earth Helen Wilson terra cotta 1941 relief
USPO Moravia Jethro Wood making the first all metal plough in Monrovia Kenneth Washburn terra cotta 1942 relief
USPO NYC, Bronx The Letter Henry Kreis limestone 1938 facade
Noah Charles Rudy limestone 1938 facade
USPO NYC, Madison Square Communication and Transportation Edmond Amateis 1937
Communication By Sight Louis Slobodkin, Edmond Amaties bronze 1937 5 reliefs
NYC, Canal Street Station Indian Bowman Wheeler Williams terra cotta 1938 relief
NYC, Station "O" Bear and Deer Paul Fiene cast stone 1938
NYC, Harlem-McCombs Housing Project Tumbling Bears, Penguins, Kneeling Figures Heinz Warneke 1938
USPO Orchard Park In the Park Francis P. De Luna walnut 1943 relief
USPO Ossining Landing of the Mail Helene Sardeau 1938
USPO Oyster Bay Theodore Roosevelt, Animals Leo Lentelli terra cotta 1937
USPO Suffern Communication
Elliott Means plaster 1938 relief

North Carolina

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Canton Paper Sam Bell terra cotta 1941 reliefs
USPO Dunn Cotton & Tobacco Paul Rudin 1939 relief
USPO Eden, formerly Leaksville American Oriental Rug Weaving Ruth Nickerson glazed terra cotta 1941
USPO Elkin Early Days at Elkin Anita Weschler 1939
USPO Forest City Rural Delivery Duane Champlain plaster 1939 relief
USPO Hamlet Peaches, Drilling, and Dewberries Nena de Brennecke mahogany 1942 reliefs
USPO Marion Unity Bruno Piccirilli 1939
USPO and Court House Statesville Freeman Prosper and Defending Freedom Sahl Swarz wood 1948 freestanding, in courtroom
USPO Weldon Early Childhood of Virginia Dare Jean de Marco plaster 1940 relief
USPO Wilmington History and present day themes relating to Wilmington and its surroundings Thomas Lo Medico plaster 1937 8 reliefs

North Dakota

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Lisbon Family Group James L. Hansen terra cotta 1944 never displayed, relocated to Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota[40]

Ohio

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Campbell Iron & Steel Industry Joseph Walter terra cotta 1941 relief
USPO Chagrin Falls Stone Quarries Moissaye Marans wood 1943
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland Bruno the Bear[41] William McVey limestone ca. 1933
USPO Lakeview Terrace Housing Project, Cleveland Early History William McVey 1936
USPO Clyde Agriculture William Krusen wood 1939
USPO Crooksville Potter Thomas Lo Medico terra cotta 1939 relief
Army Aeronautical Museum, Wright Field, Dayton Flight Seth M. Velsey 1936
USPO Leetonia Industries & Agriculture of Leetonia Lenore Thomas terra cotta 1941 relief
USPO Loudonville The Mailman Rudolf Henn plaster 1938
USPO Miamisburg Indian and Trader Leo Schulemowitz wood 1942 relief
USPO Middleport The Family Clara Fasano 1939
USPO Newcomerstown Men & Machines Casare Stea plaster 1939 bas relief
USPO Paulding Industry Charles Umlauf mahogany 1941 bas relief
USPO Pomeroy Salt' Coal Seth Velsey wood 1940 relief
USPO Struthers Citizens W. Bimel Kehm plaster 1940
USPO Sylvania Trilobites Melik Finkle plaster 1940 relief
USPO Woodsfield The Clearing Joseph Scott wood 1941
USPO Worthington Scioto Company Settler Vernon Carlock terra cotta 1939 relief
Muskingum Park, Marietta Start Westward Memorial Gutzon Borglum stone 1938 WPA

Pennsylvania

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Blawnox The Steel Worker and Family Mildred Jerome wood 1941 relief, missing (2006)[42]
USPO Bloomsburg Pennsylvania Farming Roy King walnut 1937 relief
USPO Boyertown Harvest, Transfer of Skills, Education, and Barnyard Moissaya Marans plaster 1941 relief
USPO Chester William Penn Erwin Springweiler metal 1938 Sculpture of William Penn
USPO Clarks Summit Communication by Mail Harry Camden aluminum 1939
USPO Conshohocken Steel Workers Robert Russin wood 1942 relief
USPO Coraopolis Racoon, Deer, and Fox Nena de Brennecke wood 1940 3 reliefs
USPO Coudersport Lumbering in Potter County 1815–1920 Ernest Lohrmann plaster 1939 relief
USPO Danville Iron Pouring Jean De Marco aluminum 1941
USPO Drexel Hill Aborigines Concetta Scaravaglione wood 1942 relief
USPO East Stroudsburg Communication Bennett Kassler 1937
Erie Federal Courthouse and Post Office, Erie American Youth Henry Kreis aluminum 1940
USPO Everett Signing of the Constitution Hazel Clere plaster 1940
USPO Girard Vacation Time Janet de Coux wood 1942 relief, in storage (1984)
USPO Hamburg Home Nathaniel Kaz wood 1941 relief
USPO Irwin Puddlers Chaim Gross wood 1942 relief, moved to new post office
USPO Johnstown eagles Louis Slobodkin granite 1938 "building reportedly sold"[1]: 226 
USPO Lititz The Moravian Communion, Lititz Springs Picnic Joseph Nicolosi wood 1941 relief
USPO Mahanoy City Coal Miners Returning From Work Malvina Hoffman plaster 1939
USPO McDonald Agriculture and Industry August Jaegers Plaster, aluminum finished 1937 relief
USPO Mercersburg Good News Joseph Nicolosi plaster 1938 relief
USPO Meyersdale Harvesters at Rest Fred De Lorenzo plaster 1940 relief
USPO Midland Steel Workers Humbert Albrizio 1940
USPO Mifflinburg Pioneers of the Community Bennett Kassler plaster 1941 4 relief panels
USPO Milton Transportation Louis A. Maene bronze and stone 1936 bronze plaque, 7 stone reliefs
USPO Mount Pleasant Air Mail Alexander Sambugnac plaster 1937 relief
USPO North East The Town Crier Leo Lentelli cast stone 1937 moved to new library
USPO Northampton Physical Changes of the Postman through the Ages Maurice Glickman cast stone 1939 relief
USPO Northumberland Dr. Joseph Priestley Tina Melicov red mahogany 1942 relief
USPO Oakmont Allegheny River Franc Epping terra cotta 1942 relief
USPO Palmyra The Oldest Church in the Valley, Ploughing Alice Decker wood 1940 reliefs
Nix Federal Building and United States Post Office, Philadelphia Mail Delivery North, South, East and West Edmond Amateis stone 1941 4 relief panels
Law and Justice, two eagles Donald De Lue 1940 2 relief panels
USPO Pittston Indian, Mine Elevator, Campbell's Ledge Marion Walton limestone 1942 reliefs
USPO Swarthmore The Spirit of the Post Milton Horn wood 1937 relief
USPO Turtle Creek Treaty of William Penn and the Indians Mildred Jerome wood 1939 relief
USPO Union City The Lumberman Vincent Glinsky Wood 1941 relief
USPO Wyomissing Industry Cesare Stea terra cotta 1941 relief, "1979, destroyed in natural gas explosion"[42]
USPO York Prayer for Thanksgiving George Kratina wood 1946 missing, (2016)[42]
York Singing Thanksgiving Carl Schmitz wood 1946 missing, (2016)[42]

Rhode Island

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Providence Transportation, Distribution of the Mail, American Eagle
Raymond Barger stone 1940

South Carolina

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Bishopville The Saw Mill Hans Prehn plaster 1942 relief
USPO & Agriculture Building, Chesterfield The Farmer's Letters Bruno Mankowski plaster 1939 relief
USPO Easley Cultivation of Corn Renzo Fenci terra cotta 1942 relief

South Dakota

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Aberdeen Federal Building, Aberdeen Building of Grand Crossing Laci de Gerenday walnut 1940 relief; originally installed at the adjacent U.S. Post Office and Courthouse
USPO Spearfish Fish Story Marion Overby california walnut 1943 3 reliefs

Tennessee

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Joel W. Solomon Federal Building and United States Courthouse, Chattanooga The Mail Carrier
Leopold Scholz cast aluminum 1938 former post office
USPO and Court House, Columbia American Eagle Sidney Waugh 1941
USPO Decherd News on the Job Enea Biafora wood 1940 relief
USPO and Court House, Greeneville Manpower, Natural Resources William Zorach wood 1940 reliefs
Court House Nashville Portrait bust of Admiral Albert Gleaves Belle Kinney 1940 missing
USPO Rockwood Wild Life Christian Heinrich terra cotta 1939

Texas

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Bryan Bison Hunt William Gordon Hunt plaster 1941 relief
USPO Electra Oil, Cattle, and Wheat Allie Tennant plaster 1940 3 reliefs
USPO Hereford On the Range Enid Bell wood 1941 relief
Federal Building, Houston Travis' Letter from the Alamo; Sam Houston's Report on the Battle of San Jacinto William McVey tymstone 1941 missing (2016)[43]
USPO Kenedy Propellers
USPO Littlefield West Texas William McVey tymstone 1948
USPO Waco Indians and Cattle Eugenie Shonnard wood 1939 reliefs

Virginia

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Covington Rural Life Lenore Thomas glazed terra cotta 1939 3 reliefs
USPO Marion Pastoral Theme Daniel Olney plaster 1937
USPO and Court House, Newport News Early Industries, Present Day Industries, Captain Newport Brings News and Aid to the Starving Colonists Mary B. Fowler terra cotta 1943
USPO Staunton The First Reaper Florence Bessom terra cotta 1940 relief

Washington

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Clarkston Main Post Office, Clarkston Lewis and Clark Donlon McGovern wood 1940 relief
USPO Kent From Far Away Zygmund Sazevich wood 1941 3 reliefs
USPO Longview From Far Away metal 5

West Virginia

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Kenova Worker Albino Cavallito 1941 missing, (2016)[44]
USPO Logan The Letter Gleb Derujinsky 1939
USPO Oak Hill The Colonial Mail Rider Henri Crenier 1938
USPO Ripley The Pride of Jackson County Joseph Servas wood 1942
St. Albans Post Office, St. Albans Science and Industry Reuben Krammer wood 1941 originally installed at the Old St. Albans Post Office; moved, along with postal services, to a new location in 1986
USPO Spencer Pastoral of Spencer Vicken von Post Totten plaster of Paris 1938
USPO Webster Springs Springtime Lenore Thomas glazed terra cotta
USPO Weirton Pony Express-Rural Delivery Vincent Glinsky cast stone 1940 missing, (2016)[44]

Wisconsin

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Fond du Lac Post Office, Fond du Lac Birds and Animals of the Northwest Boris Gilbertson limestone 1937 11 exterior reliefs
Janesville Post Office, Janesville Wild Ducks Boris Gilbertson aluminum 1940 Four panels hanging vertically as a single unit. The panels now hang individually at the newer Janesville post office building.[45]
Monument Park, Parklawn housing development, Milwaukee Fishing and Music Karl Kahlich limestone 1938
Prairie du Chien Post Office, Prairie du Chien Discovery of Northern Waters of the Mississippi Jefferson E. Greer plaster 1938

Wyoming

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Yellowstone Main Post Office, Mammoth, Yellowstone National Park Young Grizzly Bears
Gladys Caldwell Fisher stone 1941 Pair of carved sculptures[46]

See also

References

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