This is a list of United States post office murals , produced in the United States from 1934 to 1943 through commissions from the Procurement Division of the United States Department of the Treasury . The principal objective of the United States post office murals was to secure artwork that met high artistic standards for public buildings, where it was accessible to all people. The murals were intended to boost the morale of the American people suffering from the effects of the Depression by depicting uplifting subjects the people knew and loved. Murals produced through the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture (1934–1943) were funded as a part of the cost of the construction of new post offices, with 1% of the cost set aside for artistic enhancements. Murals were commissioned through competitions open to all artists in the United States. Almost 850 artists were commissioned to paint 1,371 murals, most of which were installed in post offices; 162 of the artists were women and three were African American . The Treasury Relief Art Project (1935–1938), which provided artistic decoration for existing Federal buildings, produced a smaller number of post office murals. TRAP was established with funds from the Works Progress Administration . The Section supervised the creative output of TRAP, and selected a master artist for each project. Assistants were then chosen by the artist from the rolls of the WPA Federal Art Project.
13-602: Not to be confused with Forest Hills (disambiguation) . Forest Hill or Forrest Hill may refer to: Places [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Forest Hill, New South Wales , a suburb of Wagga Wagga Forrest Hill, New South Wales , a suburb of Albury Forest Hill, Queensland Forest Hill, Victoria Forest Hill Chase Shopping Centre Electoral district of Forest Hill , an electoral district in Victoria Forest Hill, Western Australia ,
26-801: A historic home in Amherst County, Virginia Forest Hill, Richmond, Virginia , a neighborhood Forest Hill, West Virginia Forest Hill Cemetery (disambiguation) Elsewhere [ edit ] Forrest Hill, New Zealand , a suburb of Auckland Forest Hill, Gauteng , South Africa People [ edit ] Forrest Hill (artist) , a mural-painter of a Montana post office See also [ edit ] Forest Hills (disambiguation) Forest Hill Cemetery (disambiguation) Forest Hill Historic District (disambiguation) Forest Hill Park (disambiguation) Forest Hill station (disambiguation) All pages with titles containing Forest Hill [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
39-625: A locality of the Shire of Plantagenet Canada [ edit ] Forest Hill, Toronto , Ontario, Canada Forest Hill (electoral district) , Ontario Forest Hill, Guysborough, Nova Scotia Forest Hill, Kings, Nova Scotia Forest Hills, Nova Scotia United Kingdom [ edit ] Forest Hill, London , a suburb Forest Hill railway station Forest Hill School Forest Hill, Oxfordshire Forest Hill, Wiltshire United States [ edit ] Foresthill, California Forest Hill, San Francisco , California,
52-714: A neighborhood Forest Hill Station (San Francisco) , a Muni Metro station Forest Hill, Indiana Forest Hill, Kansas Forest Hill (Danville, Kentucky) , listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Boyle County, Kentucky Forest Hill, Louisiana Forest Hill, Maryland Forest Hill, Newark, New Jersey Forest Hill, Ohio , a neighborhood in Cleveland Heights and East Cleveland Forest Hill, Oklahoma Forest Hill, Texas Forest Hill (Amherst, Virginia) ,
65-664: A public school district in Hamilton County, Ohio Forest Hills School District , a public school district in Cambria County, Pennsylvania See also [ edit ] Forest Hills Foods, a local supermarket in Grand Rapids, Michigan owned by SpartanNash Forest Hills Historic District (disambiguation) Forest Hills station (disambiguation) Forest Hill (disambiguation) All pages with titles containing Forest Hills Topics referred to by
78-415: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Forest Hills (disambiguation) (Redirected from Forest Hills (disambiguation) ) [REDACTED] A request that this article title be changed to Forest Hills (disambiguation) is under discussion . Please do not move this article until
91-509: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages List of United States post office murals Artists were asked to paint in an "American scene" style, depicting ordinary citizens in a realistic manner. Abstract and modern art styles were discouraged. Artists were also encouraged to produce works that would be appropriate to the communities where they were to be located and to avoid controversial subjects. Projects were closely scrutinized by
104-631: The Section for style and content, and artists were paid only after each stage in the creative process was approved. The Section and the Treasury Relief Art Project were overseen by Edward Bruce , who had directed the Public Works of Art Project (1933–1934). They were commission-driven public work programs that employed artists to beautify American government buildings, strictly on the basis of quality. This contrasts with
117-1139: The discussion is closed. Forest Hills or Forrest Hills may refer to: Places [ edit ] United States [ edit ] Forest Hills (Tampa) , Florida Forest Hills, Illinois , a neighborhood in Western Springs Forest Hills, Kentucky Forest Hills, Boston , Massachusetts Forest Hills Cemetery Forest Hills, Michigan Forest Hills, Queens , in New York City Forest Hills, North Carolina Forest Hills, Pennsylvania Forest Hills, Tennessee Forrest Hills, Tennessee Forest Hills, Dallas , Texas Forest Hills, Virginia Forest Hills, Kanawha County, West Virginia Forest Hills (Washington, D.C.) Elsewhere [ edit ] Forest Hills, Nova Scotia , Canada Forest Hills, Kloof , South Africa Schools [ edit ] Forest Hills High School (disambiguation) Forest Hills Public Schools , Kent County, Michigan Forest Hills Local School District ,
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#1732772686487156-704: The subject of efforts by the United States Postal Service to preserve and protect them. This is particularly important and problematical as some of them have disappeared or deteriorated. Some are ensconced in buildings that are worth far less than the artwork. A review of murals in Colorado's post offices found there were no frescos, but rather all had been painted on canvas. William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building A number of Kansas post offices were listed on
169-659: The work-relief mission of the Federal Art Project (1935–1943) of the Works Progress Administration, the largest of the New Deal art projects. So great was its scope and cultural impact that the term "WPA" is often mistakenly used to describe all New Deal art, including the U.S. post office murals. "New Deal artwork" is a more accurate term to describe the works of art created under the federal art programs of that period. The murals are
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