Redwood City, CA New Deal Art

New Deal/WPA Art in Redwood City, California

This Post Office mural was funded by the Section of Fine Arts under the Treasury Department and not the WPA.

Redwood City, CA Post Office (855 Jefferson Street) “Flower Farming and Vegetable Raising” – oil on canvas
by Jose Moya del Pino (1937)

Image courtesy of the USPS

Photograph taken by Seth Gaines.

Reference Source:
Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal
by Marlene Park & Gerald E. Markowitz

Thanks to Jimmy Emerson who contributed the photograph.

The Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) Post Office photo page at: http://www.postmarks.org/photos