The Texas Post Office Murals: Art for the People

Parisi, Philip

College Station, Tex. Texas A & M University Press, 2004. Hardcover. Black stamped cloth, gilt letters on spine, beige and color illus. dust jacket, 181 pp., 104 color illus., 23 BW illus. VG/VG- minor wear to edges and corners of dust jacket. Item #145472
ISBN: 9781585442317

"In the midst of the Great Depression, a program was born that would not only give work to artists but also create beauty and optimism for a people worn down by hardship and discouragement. This New Deal program commissioned competing artists to create post office murals -- the people’s art -- to celebrate the lives, history, hopes, and dreams of ordinary Americans. In Texas alone, artists produced 106 artworks (several now lost) for sixty-nine post offices and federal buildings around the state. Created by some of the most promising (and now famous) artists of the day, these murals sparkled with scenes of Texas history, folklore, heroes, common people, wildlife, and landscapes." (dj) See it all, here.