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Depression era art: Tennessee post office murals, 1938-1994

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Title	Depression era art: Tennessee post office murals, 1938-1994
Author	Hillenmeyer, Marianne Bevil
Date	1995
Coverage	1930-1939 1940-1949 1950-1959 1960-1969 1970-1979 1980-1989 1990-1999 20th century
Publisher	Middle Tennessee State University
Place of Publication	Murfreesboro, TN
Description	A history thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the degree of Master of Arts
Abstract	During the New Deal period, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as part of unemployment relief, gave thousands of American artists commissions to paint murals in post offices across the country. These paintings present an interesting preservation problem. Because of their location, murals have experienced various stages of deterioration due to pollution and decay over the last fifty years. The security of these paintings is questionable and some have been lost and destroyed due to lack of preservation planning. These paintings are valuable assets of American cultural history and deserve proper care. They are the first artifacts of a government aware of the need for Americans to be exposed to art and each scene tells a story about the American government, the American art world, and the public that received them half a century ago...
Physical Description	ix, 131 leaves : typed ; 28 cm
Series	History Department, M.T.S.U.
Subject-LCSH	Mural paintings and decoration -- 20th century -- Tennessee Post office buildings -- Tennessee
Type	Text
Format	application/pdf
Genre	Thesis
Medium	Paper
Extent	144 p
Language	eng
Copyright Status	Copyright protected. Reproduced with permission of the author.
Conditions for use	Copyright maintained by author. Academic and personal use only.
Contributing Institution	James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Source file	ht_hillenmeyer.pdf

Depression era art: Tennessee post office murals, 1938-1994

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Depression era art: Tennessee post office murals, 1938-1994