Post Office Mural - Cortland, NY
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member ripraff
N 42° 35.890 W 076° 10.842
18T E 403137 N 4716869
This mural is titled “Valley of the Seven Hills”.
Waymark Code: WM118GN
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 09/06/2019
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Outspoken1
Views: 5

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"Most of the Post Office works of art were funded through commissions under the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture (later known as The Section of Fine Arts) and not the WPA...Headed by Edward Bruce, a former lawyer, businessman, and artist, the Section’s main function was to select art of high quality to decorate public buildings"

Ryah R. Ludins American, 1896 - 1957 (visit link)

Ryah Ludins portfolio, circa 1920-1950 Art teacher, Painter, Printmaker, Illustrator (visit link)
"The murals were mostly commissioned for government art projects in the 1930s. Included are New York Harbor, wood intarsia, location unknown; Methods of Transporting Mail, sketches commissioned by the Works Progress Administration Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture; a World's Fair wood relief mural for the P.W.A. Building entitlted Recreational Activities, commissioned by the Section; Valley of the Seven Hillswood relief mural for a post office in Cortland, New York, commissioned by the Section; the Central Parkfresco for the men's recreation room in the Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, New York, commissioned by the Works Progress Administration; and the fresco Modern Industryat the Museum of Michoacan, Morelia, Mexico, commissioned by the Mexican government. Many of the photographs are accompanied by identifications or notes."
City: Cortland

Location Name: Post Office

Artist: Ryah Ludins

Date: 1943

Media: painted wood relief

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