List of United States post office murals in New York
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following is a list of United States post office murals created in New York between 1934 and 1943.[1][2]
| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHPlisted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akron | Horse-Drawn Railroad | Elizabeth Logan | 1941 | tempera | yes | |
| Albany | Ethel M. Parsons | 1935 | oil on canvas, map-style ceiling murals at James T. Foley United States Courthouse depicting the U.S., the continents, and Earth's geographical poles | |||
| Albion | Along the Barge Canal | Judson Smith | 1939 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Amsterdam | Departure of a Packet Boat | Henry Schnakenberg | 1939 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Sir William Johnson Conferring with the Indians | ||||||
| Attica | Fall in the Genesse Country | Thomas Donnelly | 1938 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Baldwinsville | Gateway to the West | Paul Weller | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
| Beacon | Views of Mid-Hudson Region | Charles Rosen | 1937 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Binghamton | Communication | Kenneth Washburn | 1938 | oil on canvas Eight murals |
||
| Boonville | The Black River Canal – 1845 | Lucerne McCullough | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
| Suzanne McCullough | ||||||
| Bronxville | The Arrival of the First Mail in Bronxville, 1846 | John Sloan | 1939 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Canajoharie | Invention of a Paper Bag in Canajoharie | Anatol Shulkin | 1942 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Canastota | The Onion Fields | Alison Mason Kingsbury | 1942 | tempera on canvas | yes | |
| Clyde | Apple Pickers | Thomas Donnelly | 1941 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Delhi | Down-Rent War, Around 1845 | Mary Earley | 1940 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition | yes | |
| Delmar | The Indian Ladder | Sol Wilson | 1940 | yes | ||
| Depew | Beginning of the Day | Anne Poor | 1941 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Dolgeville | Underground Railroad | James Michael Newell | 1940 | fresco | yes | |
| East Rochester | Recreation Hours | Bernard Gussow | 1938 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Ellenville | Establishment of First Post Office in Ellenville in 1823 | Louis Bouche | 1942 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Endicott | Endicott, 1901 – Excavating for the Ideal Factory | S. Douglass Crockwell | 1938 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Fort Edward | Lock on the Champlain Canal, Fort Edward | George A. Picken | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Fredonia | The Harvest | Arnold Blanch | 1937 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Freeport | Air Mail | William Gropper | 1938 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Suburban Post in Winter | ||||||
| Fulton | Father LeMoyne Trying to Convert the Indians on Pathfinders Island | Caroline S. Rohland | 1942 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Garden City | Huckleberry Frolic | J. Theodore Johnson | 1937 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Goshen | The Running of the Hambletonian Stakes | Georgina Klitgaard | 1937 | yes | ||
| Harrison | Early Days of the Automobile | Harold Goodwin | 1941 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Hempstead | Hempstead Settlers in 1640 | Peppino Mangravite | 1937 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| The English Dirigible R-34 Delivering Mail to the United States in Hempstead Field in 1919 | ||||||
| Homer | Albany Street Bridge | Frank Romanelli | 1940 | yes | ||
| Honeoye Falls | The Life of the Senecas | Stuart Edie | 1942 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Hudson Falls | Scenes and Activities of Hudson | George A. Picken | 1937 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Huntington | Huntington Harbor | Paul C. Chapman | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
| Hyde Park | Professions and Industries of Hyde Park | Olin Dows | 1941 | yes | ||
| Johnson City | Scenes of post service, local industries, and other activities typical of the community |
Frederick Knight | 1937 | yes | ||
| Lake George | Lake George | Judson Smith | 1942 | yes | ||
| Lake Placid | Scenes of winter sports | Henry Billings | 1937 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Lancaster | Early Commerce in the Erie Canal Region | Arthur Getz | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Long Beach | The Pleasures of the Bathing Beach | Jon Corbino | 1939 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Middleburgh | Dance of the Hop Pickers | Mary Earley | 1941 | oil and tempera | yes | |
| Middleport | Rural Highway | Marianne Appel | 1941 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Mount Kisco | Indian Cornfield | Thomas Donnelly | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
| Mount Kisco in 1850 | ||||||
| New Rochelle | The Huguenots Lay the Foundations of the City of New Rochelle | David Hutchison | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| John Pell Receives Partial Payment for 6,000 Acres | ||||||
| The Post Rider Brings News of the Battle of Lexington | ||||||
| New York City Bronx General Post Office |
Resources of America | Ben Shahn |
1939 | thirteen panels, egg tempera on plaster | yes | |
| Bernarda Bryson Shahn | ||||||
| Washington and the Battle of the Bronx | Irving A. Block |
1942 | oil on canvas | |||
| Abraham Lishinsky | ||||||
| New York City Manhattan General Post Office |
The Triborough Bridge in Process of Construction | Louis Lozowick | oil on canvas | |||
| Joseph Kaplan | ||||||
| Sky Line and Waterfront Traffic as Seen from Manhattan Bridge | Louis Lozowick | |||||
| Joseph Kaplan | ||||||
| New York City Manhattan Madison Square Station |
Scenes of New York | Kindred McLeary | 1939 | eight panels, tempera on plaster, started 1937 | yes | |
| New York City Queens Jackson Heights Station |
Development of Jackson Heights | Peppino Mangravite | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| New York City Queens Woodhaven Station |
The First Amendment | Ben Shahn | 1941 | |||
| Nyack | Scenes of local history in the colonial period | Jacob Getlar Smith | 1936 | yes | ||
| Jacob Pelzman | ||||||
| Oxford | Family Reunion on Clark Island, Spring 1791 | Mordi Gassner | 1941 | tempera | yes | |
| Oyster Bay | Scenes of local history | Ernest Peixotto | 1937 | yes | ||
| Arthur Sturges | ||||||
| Allegory of North America receiving mail from world | Ernest Peixotto | 1936 | ||||
| Arthur Sturges | ||||||
| Painted Post | Recording the Victory[3] | Amy Jones[4] | 1939 | yes | ||
| Port Chester | Domenico Mortellito | 1936 | four large murals and nine lunettes depicting dock workers, millowners, tool, anddie workers and the Life Savers Building | yes | ||
| Port Washington | Lighthouse | Harry S. Lane | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
| Sailing | ||||||
| Landscape | ||||||
| Poughkeepsie | Indian Resting Spot | Gerald Foster | 1939 | A 1690 scene at the "reed covered lodge at the spring place" (Poughkeepsie) where Indian messengers customarily met[5] | yes | |
| The Ratification Convention in 1788 | ||||||
| Old Poughkeepsie | ||||||
| View of Poughkeepsie in 1840 | Georgina Klitgaard | 1940 | ||||
| Contemporary View of Poughkeepsie from the River | Charles Rosen | 1940 | ||||
| Rhinebeck | Scenes of local history | Olin Dows | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Richfield Springs | Local landscape | John W. Taylor | 1942 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Rockville Centre | Scenes of local history | Victor White | 1939 | oil on canvas, four panels | yes | |
| Rome | Barn Raising | Wendell Jones | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
| Rye | John Jay at His Home | Guy Pene du Bois | 1938 | yes | ||
| St. Johnsville | Mohawk Valley – Early St. Johnsville Pioneers | Jirayr H. Zorthian | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Saratoga Springs | Saratoga in Racing Season | Guy Pène du Bois | 1937 | two panels | ||
| Scarsdale | Caleb Heathcote Buys the Richbell Farm | Gordon Samstag | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Law and Order in Old Scarsdale Manor | ||||||
| Scotia | The Glen Family Spared by French and Indians – 1690 | Amy Jones | 1941 | tempera | yes | |
| Spring Valley | Waiting for the Mail | Stephan Etneir | 1938 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Springville | Fiddler’s Green | Victoria Hutson Huntley | 1938 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Ticonderoga | The Exhortation of Ethan Allen | Frederick Massa | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Troy | Legends of the Hudson | Waldo Peirce | 1938 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Rip Van Winkle | ||||||
| Waverly | Spanish Hill and the Early Inhabitants of the Vicinity | Musa McKim | 1939 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Westhampton Beach | Outdoor Sports | Sol Wilson | 1942 | oil on canvas | yes | |
| Whitehall | Settlement of Skenesborough | Axel Horn | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes |