List of United States post office murals in Wisconsin
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Following is a list of United States post office murals created in Wisconsin between 1934 and 1943.[1][2]
| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP-listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin Post Office, Berlin | Gathering Cranberries | Raymond Redell | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Black River Falls | Lumbering-Black River Mill | Frank Buffmire | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
| Chilton Post Office, Chilton | Threshing Barley | Charles W. Thwaites | 1940 | tempera; winner of the 48-State Mural Competition | ||
| Columbus Post Office, Columbus | One Hundredth Anniversary | Charles W. Thwaites | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
| De Pere | The Red Pieta | Lester W. Bentley | 1942 | tempera | ||
| Nicholas Perrot | ||||||
| Give Us This Day | ||||||
| Edgerton | Tobacco Harvest | Vladimir Rousseff | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
| Elkhorn | Pioneer Postman | Tom Rost | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Hartford | Autumn Wisconsin Landscape | Ethel Spears | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
| Hayward | The Land of Woods and Lakes | Stella E. Harlos | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
| Hudson | Unloading a River Barge | Ruth Grotenrath | 1943 | tempera; on display at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend | ||
| Kaukauna | A. Grignon Trading with the Indians | Vladimir Rousseff | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Kewaunee | Winter Sports | Paul Faulkner | 1940 | fresco | ||
| Ladysmith | Development of the Land | Elsa Jemne | 1938 | tempera; mural has been painted over | ||
| Lake Geneva | Winter Landscape | George Dietrich | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
| Lancaster Post Office, Lancaster | Farm Yard | Tom Rost | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
| Mayville | Wisconsin Rural Scene | Peter Rotier | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
| Neillsville | The Choosing of the County Seat | John Van Koert | 1940 | tempera | ||
| Oconomowoc | Rabbit Hunters | Edward Morton | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Winter Sports | ||||||
| Park Falls | Lumberjack Fight on the Flambeau River | James Watrous | 1938 | tempera | ||
| Plymouth Post Office, Plymouth | Making Cheese | Charles W. Thwaites | 1942 | tempera | ||
| Prairie du Chien Post Office, Prairie du Chien | Discovery of Northern Waters of the Mississippi | Jefferson E. Greer | 1938 | plaster relief | ||
| Reedsburg Post Office, Reedsburg | Dairy Farming | Richard Jansen | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
| Rice Lake | Rural Delivery | Forrest Flower | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Richland Center | Decorative Interpretation of Unification of America through the Post | Ricard Brooks | 1937 | oil on canvas[3] | 1989 | |
| Shawano Post Office, Shawano | The First Settlers | Eugene Higgins | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
| Sheboygan | Agriculture | Schomer Lichtner | 1939 | |||
| Indian Life | ||||||
| The Lake | ||||||
| The Pioneer | ||||||
| Present City | ||||||
| Stoughton | Air Mail Service | Edmund Lewandowski | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
| Sturgeon Bay Post Office, Sturgeon Bay | Fruits of Sturgeon Bay | Santos Zingale | 1940 | egg tempera | ||
| Viroqua | War Party | Forrest Flower | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
| Waupaca Post Office, Waupaca | Wisconsin Countryside | Raymond Redell | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
| Wausau | Lumbering | Gerrit V. Sinclair | 1940 | tempera | ||
| Rural Mail | ||||||
| West Allis | Wisconsin Wild Flowers – Spring | Frances Foy | 1943 | |||
| Wisconsin Wild Flowers – Autumn | ||||||
| West Bend | The Rural Mail Carrier | Peter Rotier | 1937 | oil on canvas |