List of United States post office murals of Maine

Following is a list of United States post office murals created in Maine between 1934 and 1943.[1][2]

Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP listed
Dexter News from the Woodsman Elliot Means 1941
Dover-Foxcroft River Driving Barrie Barnstow Greenbie 1940 Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition
Ellsworth Ellsworth, Lumber Port Alzira Peirce 1938 on display at the Ellsworth City Hall
Kennebunk The Arrival of the First Letter – Kennebunk Post

Office from Falmouth – June 14, 1775

Edith Barry 1939 former post office now houses the Kennebunkport Police Station
Kennebunkport Bathers Elizabeth Tracy 1941 removed May 1945[3]
Kennebunkport Gordon Grant 1944 extant; replaced the Tracy mural[4]
Millinocket Logging in the Maine Woods John Beauchamp 1942
Portland The Sea Henry Mattson 1937
The Rocky Coast of Maine
South Portland Shipwreck at Night Alzira Peirce 1939
Westbrook Woodmen in the Woods of Maine Waldo Peirce 1937 on display at Portland Museum of Art

References

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  1. "Browse New Deal projects by State and City". livingnewdeal.org. Living New Deal. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  2. "Maine New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
  3. Marling, Karal A. (1982). Wall-to-Wall America : A Cultural History of Post Office Murals in the Great Depression (First ed.). University of Minnesota Press. p. 282. ISBN 0816611165.
  4. "Gordon Grant Post Office Mural". The Living New Deal. Retrieved September 3, 2022.