New Deal Art in Casper, Wyoming
This Post Office mural was funded by the Section of Fine Arts under the Treasury Department and not the WPA.
![]() Casper, WY Post Office “The Fertile Land Remembers” – oil on canvas by Louise Harrington Emerson Ronnebeck (1938) Photograph taken by David Brackenrich This mural formerly hung in the Worland, WY Post Office. Image courtesy of the USPS Source: Please note that the name of the artist is misprinted in Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal . The correct name for the artist is Ms. Louise Harrington Emerson Ronnebeck. There is a plaque under the mural in Casper that has her complete name. |
Thanks to Jimmy Emerson who contributed the photograph and the corrected spelling of the artist’s name!
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