List of New Deal sculpture

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

List of New Deal sculpture is a list of sculpture found in the United States and its territories, including free standing, relief and architectural sculpture that was funded by the federal government during the New Deal era.

These include 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, the term "relief" refers to relief sculpture.

Alabama[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Alexander City Tobacco, Wheat and Cotton Frenc Epping terra cotta 1941 relief
USPO Opp Opp Hans Mangelsdorf wood 1940 relief
USPO Scottsboro Alabama Agriculture Constance Ortmayer plaster 1940 three-panel relief[3]

Alaska[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes

Arizona[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
in front of Cochise County Court House
Bisbee[4]
The Arizona Miner Phillips Sanderson painted cast stone 1935 9 foot tall statue
USPO Flagstaff Arizona logging Robert Kittredge plaster 1940 relief, since moved, missing
Arizona State Fairgrounds Grandstand
Phoenix[5]
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[6]
fountain Emry Kopta cast concrete 1934 only the bottom of three tiers was completed
Hayden Library, ASU
Tempe[7]
The Flute Player Emry Kopta bronze 1934 originally intended as top of fountain

Arkansas[edit]

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[edit]

[8]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Bell Eagle Stuart Holmes wood 1937 "in private hands"[9]
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 &
Gordon Newell
1936
USPO Covina Covina Desert Orange Groves Atanas Katchamakoff Spanish cedar 1941 relief
USPO & Courthouse
now City Hall Fresno
RFD 1 and RFD 2 Helen Bell Bruton terra cotta 1940 reliefs[10]
USPO & Courthouse
now City Hall Fresno
American Eagles William Calfee cast concrete 1940
USPO & Courthouse
now City Hall, Fresno
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
USPO Hollister Early California Vladimir Menkoff
Joseph Stone & Avis Zeigler, assts.
wood 1936
United States Post Office (Hollywood, Los Angeles) Horsemen Sherry Peticolas
and Gordon Newell
wood 1937
USPO Inglewood Centinela Springs Archibald Garner mahogany 1937 relief
Inglewood Buffalo, Bear, Cougar, Bighorn Sheep Sherry Peticolas &
Gordon Newell
plaster 1937
King City King City High School Auditorium Jo Mora Concrete 1939 NHRP
USPO Livermore The Ranch Post Box Robert Boardman Howard oak 1941 relief
USPO & Courthouse, Los Angeles Eagles James Hansen 1941
USPO & CourtHouse Los Angeles Eagles Henry Lion cast stone 1938 2 Eagles, on the facade
USPO & CourtHouse Los Angeles Law Archibald Garner limestone 1941 "in storage" (1984)
USPO & CourtHouse Los Angeles Young Lincoln James L. Hansen limestone 1941 "now Recorder of Deeds"[11]
USPO Oceanside Eagle Stuart Holmes 1936 carved grill
Riverside[12] Juan Bautista De Anza Sherry Peticolas carved granite 1939 statue
Riverside[12] Departure from Tubac Second De Anza Expedition, 1775 Dorr Bothwell (design), Sherry Peticolas sandstone 1939 bas relief
USPO Roseville The Letter Zygmund Sazevich wood 1937 relief
USPO San Fernando Transportation of the Mail Sherry Peticolas
and Gordon Newell
Wood 1936 Truck, horse, ship, train, stagecoach[13]
USPO Salinas Cowboy Cattleman
Cowboy and Horse
Richard O'Hanlon walnut 1937 reliefs
USPO San Diego Transportation of the Mail Archibald Garner 1937
San Francisco Mint Minting Process and Eagle Albert Stewart bronze 1937 4 reliefs
USPO San Mateo Indian Maidens Zygmund Sazevich wood 1935 relief[14]
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
USPO Yuba City The Wealth of Sutter County Lulu H. Brighetta wood 1942 relief
El Segundo Swim Stadium Swimmers[15] Unknown 1941[16] relief
San Pedro, Los Angeles Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo[17] Henry Lion cast concrete 1936 statue
Glendale Community College Fountain with mosaic[13] Archibald Garner
Santa Monica Statue of Saint Monica Eugene Morahan Concrete 1934 Statue, PWAP
Lafayette Park, Los Angeles Power of Water fountain with bas relief frieze Henry Lion, Jason Herron, and Sherry Peticolas; engineer Paul Jeffers 1934 PWAP

Colorado[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO 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
USPO 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[edit]

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
USPO South Norwalk Eagle Gaetano Cecere marble 1941 relief
USPO Stamford Mother and Child
Neighbors
Henry Kreis 1938
USPO Windsor Stringing, Transplanting,
and Harvesting
Nena de Brennecke wood 1943

Delaware[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes

District of Columbia[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Department of Commerce Building[18] 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
Department of Commerce Building Foreign and Domestic
commerce
Ulysses Ricci limestone 1934 designed by James Earle Fraser
Department of Commerce Building Fisheries Joseph Kiselewski limestone 1934 designed by James Earle Fraser
carved by the Gino Ratti Company
Department of Commerce Building Aeronautics Haig Patigian limestone 1934 designed by James Earle Fraser
carved by Geno A. Ratti Company
Department of Commerce Building 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
Federal Trade Commission Building Shipping Robert Laurent limestone 1938
Federal Trade Commission Building Aluminum grills William McVey Aluminum 1938
Federal Trade Commission Building Agriculture Concetta Scaravaglione limestone 1938
Federal Trade Commission Building Foreign Trade Carl Schmitz limestone 1938
Federal Trade Commission Building 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
Warehouse Building
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
National Zoological Park Anteater
Entrance to the Mammal House
Erwin Springweiler 1937
National Zoological Park Tumbling Bears Heinz Warneke 1938
Post Office Department Building Post Rider Continental
1775 to 1789
Alexander Stirling Calder aluminum 1936
Post Office Department Building Rural Free Delivery
Gaetano Cecere 1936
Post Office Department Building Portraits of 8
former Postmaster Generals
Gleb Derujinsky 1937
Post Office Department Building Alaska Snowshoe Carrier
Chaim Gross aluminum 1936
Post Office Department Building Pony Express 1850–1858
Arthur Lee 1937
Post Office Department Building Air Mail
Oronzio Maldarelli 1936
Post Office Department Building Samuel Osgood
First Postmaster General
Paul Manship 1937
Post Office Department Building Postman 1961-1775 Berta Margoulies 1936
Post Office Department building Present Day Postman
Attilio Piccirilli 1937
Post Office Department Building Railway Mail-1862
Concetta Scaravaglione 1936
Post Office Department Building City Delivery Carrier
Carl Schmitz 1936
Post Office Department Building Tropical Postman
Louis Slobodkin 1936
Post Office Department building Express Man
Heinz Warneke 1936
Post Office Department Building Stage driver, 1789–1836
Sidney Waugh 1936
Post Office Department Building Benjamin Franklin
the First Colonial Postmaster
William Zorach 1937
Social Security &
RR Retirement Board Building
American Eagle Richmond Barthé 1940
Social Security &
RR Retirement Board Building
Family group
Unemployment Compensation
Emma Lu Davis 1941
Social Security &
RR Retirement Board Building
Railroad Employment
Railroad Retirement
Robert Kittredge 1941
Social Security &
RR Retirement Board Building
The Growth of Social Security
The Benefits of Social Security
Henry Kreis 1941
Social Security &
RR Retirement Board Building
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
Stewart Lee Udall
US Department of the Interior Building
American Moose
Boris Gilbertson limestone 1940
Stewart Lee Udall
Department of the Interior Building
Negro Mother and Child
Maurice Glickman bronze 1934 Installed 1940
Stewart Lee Udall
Department of the Interior Building
Abe Lincoln Louis Slobodkin 1940
Stewart Lee Udall
Department of the Interior Building
Powell Exploring
the Grand Canyon
Ralph Stackpole 1940
Stewart Lee Udall
Department of the Interior Building
Lewis & Clark Heinz Warneke 1940

Florida[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Arcadia Arcadia Constance Ortmayer plaster 1939
USPO and Courthouse
Miami
Love & Hope Alexander Sambugnac cast stone 1938 relief
USPO and Courthouse
Miami
Wisdom & Courage Alexander Sambugnac cast stone 1938 relief

Georgia[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Ashburn Southern Farm Life Maurice Glickman 1947 missing (2016)[9]
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[edit]

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

Idaho[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Bonners Ferry Boundary County Courthouse Friezes[19] Fletcher Martin Floating Logs; Harvest; Mining; NHRP

Illinois[edit]

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
Jane Addams Memorial Houses
Westside Housing Project
Chicago
7 animal figures Edgar Miller 1938
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
USPO Evanston 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
Peoria Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium
Peoria
Harvest and Peace Mary Andersen Clark limestone 1939 the two eight foot tall statues were moved
to the Peoria Court House Plaza
when the Sanitarium was razed
in the mid 1970s[20]
USPO Plano, Illinois, 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[edit]

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[9]
USPO Fowler Rest During
Prairie Plowing
Nat Werner cast stone 1940
USPO and Courthouse
Indianapolis
Distribution of the Mail David Rubins limestone 1937 two panels
USPO Tell City The Noon Mail Laci de Greenday wood 1939 relief

Iowa[edit]

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 [21]

Kansas[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Burlington Boy and Colt Robert Kittredge stone 1942
USPO Columbus R.F.D. Waylande Gregory terra cotta 1940 "crated in basement"[22]
USPO Fredonia Delivery of the Mail
to the Farm
Lenore Thomas Straus glazed terra cotta 1939
USPO & Courthouse

changed to Smoky Hill Museum
Salina

Land and
Communication
Carl Mose limestone 1940

Kentucky[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO and Courthouse
Covington
Horsebreeding
Tobacco
Carl L. Schmitz limestone 1940 reliefs
USPO and Courthouse, Covington Justice Romuald Kraus bronze 1942 replica of the sculpture created for the post office and courthouse in Newark, New Jersey[23]
Jenkins Miner and Daughter F. Jean Thalinger terra cotta 1943 reliefs, missing (2016)[9]
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[edit]

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

Maine[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Belle Isle Bridge
Detroit[24]
Father Gabriel Richard Leonard Jungwirth granite c. 1938
Sarah Langdon Williams Hall
Michigan State University, East Lansing[25]
Children Reading Cliva 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[26] 1941 relief
Water Conditioning Plant
Lansing[27]
Aquarius Samuel Cashwan Concrete 1938–39 exterior relief
Water Conditioning Plant
Lansing[28]
fountain Cliva Calder Morrison glazed terra cotta 1941 located in lobby
USPO Mason Early Postman Marion Overby terra cotta 1939
USPO Munising Harbor of Munising
Chippewa Leggend
Hugo Robus wood[26] 1939 relief
USPO River Rouge The Horseless Carriage Marshall Fredericks stone 1939 relief
USPO Rochester Communication Alexander Sambugnac cast stone 1939
USPO Royal Oak The First Harvest
Pioneer Family
Sidney Loeb 1940 relief, missing (2016)[9]
USPO Traverse City[29] The Cherry Picker Marion Overby wood 1941 relief, missing (2016)[9]

Minnesota[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Location Ttle 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

Montana[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes

Nebraska[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes

Nevada[edit]

There are no New Deal sculptures in Nevada.

New Hampshire[edit]

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

New Jersey[edit]

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)[30]
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
USPO New Brunswick The Dispatch Rider Ruth Nickerson Greacen 1937 missing (2016)
USPO and Courthouse Newark Justice
Romuald Kraus bronze 1938 located in the center of the rotunda on the third floor of the Frank R. Lautenberg U.S. Post Office and Courthouse[23]
USPO and Courthouse Newark Aluminum silhouettes Vicken Totten aluminum 1935 2 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[31] cast-plaster reliefs saved from burned children’s library

New Mexico[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Richardson Pavilion
University of New Mexico Hospitals
Albuquerque[32]
Mercy Oliver LaGrone cast marblestone 1937 Originally made for the Carrie Tingley children's hospital in Hot Springs, New Mexico

New York[edit]

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 Spirti 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
USPO NYC, Bronx Noah Charles Rudy limestone 1938 facade
USPO NYC, Madison Square Communication and Transportation Edmond Amateis 1937
USPO NYC, Madison Square 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[edit]

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 Welmington History and present day
themes relating to Wilmington
and its surroundings
Thomas Lo Medico plaster 1937 8 reliefs

North Dakota[edit]

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[33]

Ohio[edit]

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[34] 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
Wright Field
Army Aeronautical Museum
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
Start Westward Memorial Gutzon Borglum stone 1938 WPA

Oklahoma[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes

Oregon[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes

Pennsylvania[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Blawnox The Steel Worker and Family Mildred Jerome wood 141 relief, missing (2006)[35]
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
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
USPO 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"[36]
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
Nix Federal Building and United States Post Office, Philadelphia Mail Delivery
North, South, East, West
Edmond Amateis stone 1941 4 relief panels
Nix Federal Building, Philadelphia Law and Justice
two eagles
Donald De Lue stone 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"[35]
USPO York Prayer for Thanksgiving George Kratina wood 1946 missing, (2016)[35]
York Singing Thanksgiving Carl Schmitz wood 1946 missing, (2016)[35]

Rhode Island[edit]

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

South Carolina[edit]

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[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Aberdeen Building of Grand Crossing Laci de Gerenday walnut 1940 relief
USPO Spearfish Fish Story Marion Overby california walnut 1943 3 reliefs

Tennessee[edit]

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
Greenville
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[edit]

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)[37]
USPO Kenedy Propellers
USPO Littlefield West Texas William McVey tymstone 1948
USPO Waco Indians and Cattle Eugenie Shonnard wood 1939 reliefs

Utah[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes

Vermont[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes

Virginia[edit]

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[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Clarkston Main Post Office 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[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
USPO Kenova Worker Albino Cavallito 1941 missing, (2016)[38]
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
USPO Saint Albans Science and Industry Reuben Krammer wood 19941
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)[38]

Wisconsin[edit]

Location Title Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Fond du Lac Post Office Birds and Animals of the Northwest Boris Gilbertson limestone 1937 11 exterior reliefs
Janesville Post Office 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.[39]
Monument Park, Parklawn, Milwaukee Fishing and Music Karl Kahlich limestone 1938
Prairie du Chien Post Office Discovery of Northern Waters of the Mississippi Jefferson E. Greer plaster 1938

Wyoming[edit]

Location Ttle Image Artist Medium Date Notes
Yellowstone Park Young Grizzly Bear 1
Gladys Caldwell Fisher stone 1941
Yellowstone Park Young Grizzly Bear 2
Gladys Caldwell Fisher stone 1941

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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