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.
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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] |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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Berryville Post Office | Man and Woman, Arkansas | Daniel Gillette Olney | 1940 | |||
Monticello Post Office | Tomato Culture | Berta Margoulies | terra cotta | 1941 | 3 reliefs |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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USPO Delta | Cattle and Fruit | Mary Kittredge | plaster | 1942 | bas reliefs | |
Byron White United States Courthouse Denver |
Rocky Mountain Sheep and White 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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 Postmasters General |
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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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Schofield Barracks Honolulu, Hawaii |
Primitive Communications | Roy King | wood | 1943 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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Bonners Ferry | Boundary County Courthouse Friezes[19] | Fletcher Martin | Floating Logs; Harvest; Mining; NHRP |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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] |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Land and Communication |
Carl Mose | limestone | 1940 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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] |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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USPO La Plata | Missouri Livestock | Emma Lou Davis | wood | 1939 | relief | |
USPO Maplewood | Family Group | Carl Mose | wood | 1942 | relief |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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There are no New Deal sculptures in Nevada.
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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Derry | Town of Derry | Vladimir Yoffe | plaster | 1938 | relief |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes | |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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Lisbon | Family Group | James L. Hansen | terra cotta | 1944 | never displayed, relocated to Augustana University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota[33] |
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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
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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] |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
USPO Providence | Transportation Distribution of the Mail American Eagle |
Raymond Barger | stone | 1940 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Location | Title | Image | Artist | Medium | Date | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
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 |
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] |
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 |
Location | Title | 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 |
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