A total of twenty-nine artist created murals in thirty Tennessee Post Office buildings during the Great Depression of the 1930s. One of the artist Minna Citron received multiple commissions. The artist and their awarded sites as listed below.
We have found having a list such as this is convenient when performing research at the National Archives Records and Administration. Any researcher will reveal, that finding information is part of the fun, somethings what you are looking for is catalogued by the artist name. Other times the research materials you need may be cataloged by the city or town, and so on.
Having a list to refer to is helpful on your journey of discovering these wonderful treasures in our nations post offices.
Tennessee Post Office Mural Artist
- Bolivar – Carl Nyquist
- Camden – John H. Fyfe
- Chattanooga – Leopold Scholz, sculpture
- Chattanooga – Hilton Leech, mural
- Clarksville – F. Luis Mora
- Clinton – Horace Talmage Day
- Columbia – Henry Billings, mural
- Columbia – Sidney Waugh, sculpture
- Crossville – Marion Greenwood
- Dayton – Bertram Hartman
- Decherd – Enea Biafora
- Dickson – Edwin Boyd Johnson
- Dresden – Minetta Good
- Gleason – Anne Poor
- Greeneville – William Zorach
- Jefferson City – Charles Child
- Johnson City – Wendell Jones
- La Follette – Dahlov Ipcar
- Lenoir City – David Stone Martin
- Lewisburg – John H.R. Pickett
- Lexington – Grace Greenwood (Ames)
- Livingston – Margaret Covey Chisholm
- Manchester – Minna Citron*
- McKenzie – Karl Oberteuffer
- Mount Pleasant – Eugene Higgins
- Nashville – Belle Kinney
- Newport – Minna Citron*
- Ripley – Marguerite Zorach
- Rockwood – Christian Henrich
- Sweetwater – Thelma Martin
Sources
- David W. Gates Jr. on site visits to each location.
- Tennessee Post Office Murals by David W. Gates Jr.
- Indiana Post Office Mural Guidebook by David W. Gates Jr.
- National Archives Records and Administration, College Park Maryland
- Who was who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 years of artist in America, Peter H Falk; Audrey M Lewis, Georgia Kuchen, Veronika Roessler, Madison, CT, Mount View Press. 1999.
- Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal
: [Hardcover] Marlene Park, Gerald E. Markowitz
This is a helpful list. I wish that I had visited the post office when I was in Greeneville, visiting the Andrew Johnson site. Oh, well. Maybe next time.
Yep, I agree, I also did one for Wisconsin Artist. It comes in handy when researching. One of these days Ill get around to actually creating a page for each artist. But that’s low on the priority list.
Thanks for the comment,
Take care, Stay safe.
David