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New Post Office Building (now the Clinton Federal Building), Washington, D.C.
#CarlLudwigSchmitz #sculpture #statue #aluminum #AmericanArt #TreasurySectionOfFineArts #SSPS #USPSemployee #SaveTheUSPS #maildelivery #mailcarrier
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#FEBRUARY 1936: #TheNewDeal & #cartoons
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#TheNewDeal and cartoons: art criticism
‘Got any Government murals you want removed?'
Cartoon by George Price from *Life*, Feb. 1936
#GeorgePrice #GreatDepression #WPA #FederalArtProject #TreasurySectionofFineArts #PostOfficeMurals
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‘Education’ Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. https://www.loc.gov/photos/?q=millard+owen+sheets 30.8.20
#TheNewDeal’s #TreasurySectionofFineArts in 1939.
‘Millard Sheets was commissioned in 1939 by the U.S. Department of the Interior to depict the four elements: earth, air, fire and water. A series of disagreements over the content and style of his sketches resulted in a ➡️
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‘Water’ and ‘Air’ Carol M. Highsmith Photography image from https://www.gsa.gov/fine-arts#/artwork/2836 31.5.21
‘Fire’ Carol M. Highsmith Photography image from https://www.gsa.gov/fine-arts#/artwork/2836 31.5.21
‘Earth’ Carol M. Highsmith Photography image from https://www.gsa.gov/fine-arts#/artwork/2836 31.5.21
Four #statues in Indiana limestone in the south-central elevator lobby, 5th floor personifying the Four Elements (Earth, Air, Water, Fire). Designed by #CPaulJennewein, carved by #RogerMorigi (1907-1995) c. 1934-36, now with support from the New Deal’s #TreasurySectionofFineArts.
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‘Steel Industry’ Howard Norton Cook. Mural. Buon fresco. 126 x 209 in. (320 x 530.9 cm). United States Post Office and Courthouse Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Treasury Section of Fine Arts. 1936.
#TreasurySectionOfFineArts #TheNewDeal #AmericanArt #HowardNortonCook #Pittsburgh
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‘American Moose’ Boris Gilbertson. Marble relief. 66 x 156 in., 7500 lb. (167.6 x 396.2 cm, 3402 kg). Department of the of Interior Building, Washington DC. Treasury Section of Fine Arts. 1939. 👉ALT #TreasurySectionOfFineArts #TheNewDeal #AmericanArt #BorisGilbertson
‘American Moose’ Boris Gilbertson. Marble relief. 66 x 156 in., 7500 lb. (167.6 x 396.2 cm, 3402 kg). Department of the of Interior Building, Washington DC. Treasury Section of Fine Arts. 1939.
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#TreasurySectionOfFineArts #TheNewDeal #AmericanArt #BorisGilbertson
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‘Society Freed Through Justice’ George Biddle. Fresco. Dept of Justice, Washington DC. Central right panel. 1936. Carol M. Highsmith (1946-) photographer. https://www.loc.gov/item/2010720160/
had been created. The director, artist #EdwardBrightBruce (1879-1943) had directed the temporary Public Works of Art Project (#PWAP) and also headed the Treasury Relief Art Project (#TRAP).
#TreasurySectionOfFineArts #TheNewDeal #AmericanArt #GeorgeBiddle
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‘The Clinton Building was originally known as the New Post Office & it housed the headquarters of the Post Office Department until 1971, when the United States Postal Service replaced it. Before the building was named in honor of former President Bill Clinton on July 17, 2013, it was named for Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives Special Agent Ariel Rios who was killed in the line of duty on December 2, 1982. Constructed in the early 1930s in one of Washington's most crime-ridden neighborhoods known as Murder Bay, the Clinton Building was part of the Federal Triangle redevelopment aimed at cleaning up crime & prostitution. Designed by architects William Adams Delano & Chester Holmes Aldrich in the Neoclassical style with inspiration from the Place Vendome in Paris. Photograph in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.’ https://picryl.com/media/exterior-view-of-the-william-jefferson-clinton-federal-building-in-the-federal-d5252a
now the #ClintonFederalBuilding, in DC [👉ALT] - for #TheNewDeal’s #TreasurySectionofFineArts.
‘In his murals, Harding shows historically based scenes of two #FoundingFathers, #BenjaminFranklin [‘Ben Franklin, Colonial Postmaster’] & #GeorgeWashington [‘Post Dispatch Rider’], ➡️
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Photos: Charles Swaney © Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2013 image from https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/department-justice-henry-varnum-poor-fresco-washington-dc/ 27.5.21
Electrification as justice
Details, including, above, the #TVA’s #NorrisDam; and, below, a #generator & related newspaper headlines. Poor, too, won his commission from the #TreasurySectionofFineArts, with a certain percentage of the cost of federal buildings devoted to art.
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‘Electrification’ Tempera on cardboard. #TreasurySectionofFineArts. 1940.
Artist #DavidStoneMartin (1913-1992) commemorated #TVA electrification in the #TennesseeValley in the #mural thus designed for the #PostOffice in #Lenoir, #Tennessee.
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Mural. Fletcher Martin (1904-1979). Post Office, San Pedro, California. Treasury Section of Fine Arts. 1938.
#FletcherMartin #AmericanArt #mural #PostOfficemural #SanPedro #California #TreasurySectionofFineArts
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‘Waiting for the Mail’
#GrantWrightChristian (1911-1989)
study (oil on canvas) & #mural, #Nappanee #Indiana #PostOffice. #TreasurySectionofFineArts 1938 #SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum
The dog, in the end a collie, added at the suggestion of the 'Section' panel to avoid monotony.
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'Airmail Pilot’
Oronzio Maldarelli (1892-1963)
Cast aluminum statue #TreasurySectionofFineArts (#TheNewDeal), New Post Office Building (Clinton Federal Blg.), Washington, D.C. 1936.
Also in 1936, the lovely title song from #RodgersandHart’s #Broadway hit, *On Your Toes* nicely ➡️
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‘Sorting the Mail’
#USPS #SaveTheUSPS #ReginaldMarsh #AmericanArt #TreasurySectionOfFineArts #TheNewDeal
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In 1936 he also won a commission, from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, to produce two murals (frescos) in the New Post Office Building (now the Clinton Federal Blg), Washington, DC.
‘Unloading the Mail’
#USPS #SaveTheUSPS #ReginaldMarsh #AmericanArt #TreasurySectionOfFineArts #TheNewDeal
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New Post Office Building (now the Clinton Federal Building), Washington, D.C.
#CarlLudwigSchmitz #sculpture #statue #aluminum #AmericanArt #TreasurySectionOfFineArts #SSPS #USPSemployee #SaveTheUSPS #maildelivery #mailcarrier
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#FEBRUARY 1936: #TheNewDeal & #cartoons
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#TheNewDeal and cartoons: art criticism
‘Got any Government murals you want removed?'
Cartoon by George Price from *Life*, Feb. 1936
#GeorgePrice #GreatDepression #WPA #FederalArtProject #TreasurySectionofFineArts #PostOfficeMurals
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‘Education’ Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. https://www.loc.gov/photos/?q=millard+owen+sheets
The New Deal’s #TreasurySectionofFineArts in 1939.
‘Millard Sheets was commissioned in 1939 by the U.S. Department of the Interior to depict the four elements: earth, air, fire and water. A series of disagreements over the content and style of his sketches resulted in a ➡️
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