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

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